John Ruskin Quotes

John Ruskin Quotes

John Ruskin Quotes

Consider the following quotes by John Ruskin:

"You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself."

"What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do."

"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."

"There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey."

"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."

"Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them."

"Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only moral"