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John Ruskin Quotes

«Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it.»
Author: John Ruskin (Critic, Writer)
«No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.»
Author: John Ruskin (Critic, Writer) | Keywords: architect, builder, Sculptor
«No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.»
Author: John Ruskin (Critic, Writer) | Keywords: pictorial, pictorial representation, representation
«You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.»
Author: John Ruskin (Critic, Writer) | Keywords: gambling
«To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over the plough or spade; to read, to think, to love, to pray, are the things that make men happy.»
Author: John Ruskin (Critic, Writer) | Keywords: blossoms, plough, spade, spades, The Blossoms, The Plough
«Civilization is the making of civil persons.»
Author: John Ruskin (Critic, Writer)
«Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.»
Author: John Ruskin (Critic, Writer) | Keywords: cursing, inflict, invoking, swearing
«We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind.»
Author: John Ruskin (Critic, Writer) | Keywords: as it were, habitation, insensibility, intermediate, perishing, stability, subdued, The Passion, veil
«Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.»
Author: John Ruskin (Critic, Writer) | Keywords: obtaining
«Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.»
Author: John Ruskin (Critic, Writer)
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