John Ruskin Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

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

  John Ruskin

  Motivational, Witty, Attitude

• 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 price only are this man's lawful prey.

  John Ruskin

  Inspirational, Men, People

• The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

  John Ruskin

  Women, Soul, Doe

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.91, University of Virginia Press

• There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

  John Ruskin

  Change, Running, Rainy Day

  "The Use Of Life". Book by John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury. Chapter 4: "Recreation", 1894.

• Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

  John Ruskin

  Climbing, Hiking, Mountain

  Modern Painters vol. 4, pt. 5, ch. 20 (1856)

• All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Soul, Literature

  John Ruskin (2015). “The Stones of Venice”, p.312, John Ruskin

• The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

  John Ruskin

  Strength, Country, Don't Give Up

  John Ruskin (188?). “Works: Fors clavigera”

• It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

  John Ruskin

  Uplifting, Stars, Sky

• Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

  John Ruskin

  Rude, Stories, Records

  'The Seven Lamps of Architecture' (1849) ch. 6 'The Lamp of Memory' 7

• It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

  John Ruskin

  Money, Purpose, Literature

• He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Ideas, Numbers

  Modern Painters vol. 1, pt. 1, ch. 2 (1843)

• Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

  John Ruskin

  Love, Men, Forever

  John Ruskin (1907). “The Religion of Ruskin: The Life and Works of John Ruskin; a Biographical and Anthological Study”

• It is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man.

  John Ruskin

  Nature, Men, Sky

  "Modern Painters".

• The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Literature, Vulgar

  John Ruskin (1888). “Modern Painters (Complete)”, p.798, Library of Alexandria

• There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

  John Ruskin

  Flower, Literature

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.367, University of Virginia Press

• Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

  John Ruskin

  Ideas, Literature, Way

  'The Two Paths' (1859) lecture 2

• To do your own work well, whether it be for life or death.

  John Ruskin

  Death, Quality, Literature

  "Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain".

• How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?

  John Ruskin

  Book, Long, People

  John Ruskin (2006). “Sesame and Lillies: Three Lectures”, p.75, Cosimo, Inc.

• It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

  John Ruskin

  Sacrifice, Simple, Skills

• The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

  John Ruskin

  Children, Years, Literature

  Time and Tide Letter 13 (1867)

• All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Greek, Visionaries

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.58, University of Virginia Press

• Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

  John Ruskin

  Teaching, Complaining, Literature

• Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

  John Ruskin

  Education, School, Soul

  John Ruskin (1853). “The Stones of Venice: The fall”, p.216

• All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

  John Ruskin

  Fake People, Judging, Feelings

  John Ruskin (2013). “Selections and Essays”, p.117, Courier Corporation

• 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.

  John Ruskin

  Funny, Hands, World Suffering

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