John Ruskin Quotes

Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the Deity to be a source of delight.

November 1st: A vermilion morning, all waves of soft scarlet, sharp at the edge, and gradated to purple. Grey scud moving slowly beneath it from the south-west, heaps of grey cumuli – between the scud and cirrus – at horizon. It issued in an exquisite day… All purple and blue in distance, and misty sunshine […]

Give a little to love a child, and you get a great deal back.

Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health, as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom, there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor, or erring habits of life.

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men, that most love variety and change.

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

It is bad to pay too much, but it is worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money, that is all; but when you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought is incapable of doing the thing it was brought to do. If […]

There is nothing in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little more cheaply. Those who buy on price alone are this man’s lawful prey.

If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.

The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.