John Ruskin Quotes:
Ocupation: Art critic
Life: February 8, 1819 - January 20, 1900
Birthday: February 8
Death: January 20
I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.
source: Fors Clavigera Letter 79, 18 June 1877. This comment was the basis for Whistler's 1878 libel suit against Ruskin.
topic: Art, Pain, Two, Impudence, Cockneys
