John Ruskin

John Ruskin Quotes and Sayings


John Ruskin English critic, essayist, & reformer (1819 - 1900)

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. ~John Ruskin

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort. ~John Ruskin

This is the true nature of home -- it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division. ~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. ~John Ruskin

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. ~John Ruskin

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work. ~John Ruskin

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it. ~John Ruskin

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave. ~John Ruskin