John Ruskin Quotes About Soldiers

Quotes about: Soldiers

• No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.

  John Ruskin

  Teacher, Money, Artist

  John Ruskin (1868). “pt. VI: Of leaf beauty. pt. VII: Of cloud beauty. pts. VIII-IX: Of ideas of relation”, p.363

• Disorder in a drawing-room is vulgar; in an antiquary's study, not; the black battle-stain on a soldier's face is not vulgar, but the dirty face of a housemaid is.

  John Ruskin

  Dirty, Drawing, Soldier

  John Ruskin (1869). “Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation: Of invention formal. Of invention spiritual”, p.288

• The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly.

  John Ruskin

  Soldier, Elements, Littles

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.288, University of Virginia Press

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