All John Ruskin Quotes
- Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. Accident
- Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back. Child
- The essence of lying is in deception, not in words. Deception
- In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. All
- There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider… Cannot Make
- The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most. Art
- The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. Business
- There is no wealth but life. Life
- Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons. Diversity
- Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. Art
- You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil. Buy
- Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty. Ambition
- Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. Art
- Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close. Beginning
- All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul. All
- We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it. Architecture
- When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. Ability
- Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder. Depraved
- The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual… Clothes
- To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. Beginning