John Ruskin Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

  John Ruskin

  Lying, Essence, Political

  John Ruskin (1910*). “The Complete Works of John Ruskin”

• No false knight or lying priest ever prospered, I believe, in any age, but certainly not in the dark ones. Men prospered then, only in following openly-declared purposes , and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

  John Ruskin

  Love, Birthday, Lying

  "The Complete Works of John Ruskin".

• Nearly all our powerful men in this age of the world are unbelievers; the best of them in doubt and misery; the worst in reckless defiance; the plurality, in plodding hesitation, doing, as well as they can, what practical work lies ready to their hands.

  John Ruskin

  Birthday, Powerful, Lying

  "Selections From the Works of John Ruskin".

• I do not mean to call an elephant a vulgar animal, but if you think about him carefully, you will find that his nonvulgarity consists in such gentleness as is possible to elephantine nature-not in his insensitive hide, nor in his clumsy foot, but in the way he will lift his foot if a child lies in his way; and in his sensitive trunk, and still more sensitive mind, and capability of pique on points of honor.

  John Ruskin

  Children, Lying, Mean

  John Ruskin (1868). “pt. VI: Of leaf beauty. pt. VII: Of cloud beauty. pts. VIII-IX: Of ideas of relation”, p.278

• I used to lie down on the grass and draw the blades as they grew - until every square foot of meadow, or mossy bank, became a possession to me.

  John Ruskin

  Lying, Squares, Feet

• It is, indeed, right that we should look for, and hasten, so far as in us lies, the coming of the day of God; but not that we should check any human effort by anticipations of its approach. We shall hasten it best by endeavoring to work out the tasks that are appointed for us here; and, therefore, reasoning as if the world were to continue under its existing dispensation, and the powers which have just been granted to us were to be continued through myriads of future ages.

  John Ruskin

  Lying, Work Out, Effort

  John Ruskin (1867). “The Stones of Venice”, p.167

• Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.

  John Ruskin

  Children, Lying, Heart

  John Ruskin (1872). “The Works of John Ruskin”, p.109

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