John Ruskin Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von John Ruskin:

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

There is no wealth but life.

John Ruskin

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

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

John Ruskin

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

John Ruskin

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

John Ruskin

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

John Ruskin

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

John Ruskin

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

John Ruskin

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

John Ruskin

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

John Ruskin

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

John Ruskin

Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

John Ruskin

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

John Ruskin

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

John Ruskin

When we build, let us think that we build for ever.

John Ruskin

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

John Ruskin

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

John Ruskin

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

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

John Ruskin

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

John Ruskin

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

John Ruskin

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

John Ruskin

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

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.

John Ruskin

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

John Ruskin

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

John Ruskin

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

John Ruskin

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

John Ruskin

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.

John Ruskin

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

John Ruskin

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

John Ruskin

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

John Ruskin

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

John Ruskin

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

John Ruskin

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

John Ruskin

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