John Ruskin Quotes - Page 25

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• The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.

  John Ruskin

  Selfish, Struggle, Vanity

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• That admiration of the 'neat but not gaudy,' which is commonly reported to have influenced the devil when he painted his tail pea green.

  John Ruskin

  Devil, Tails, Green

  John Ruskin (2010). “The Poetry of Architecture - Cottage, Villa, Etc - To Which Is Added Suggestions on Works of Art”, p.161, Orchard Press

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• Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

  John Ruskin

  Taste, Ethics, Morality

  The Crown of Wild Olive Lecture 2 (1866)

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• Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.

  John Ruskin

  Giving Up, Men, Titles

  1880 Open letter to EnglishTrades Unions, 29 Sep.

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• Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.

  John Ruskin

  Positive, Dream, Inspiration

  Vice-Chancellor, Professor Paul Curran's speech at The Chancellor's Dinner, Mansion House, www.city.ac.uk. April 23, 2014.

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• I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

  John Ruskin

  Landscape Painting, Done, Literature

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.149, University of Virginia Press

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