Cal Hockley: You're going to him? To be a whore to a gutter rat?!
Rose: I'd rather be his whore than your wife.
Lewis Bodine: We never found anything on Jack. There's no record of him at all.
Rose Calvert: No, there wouldn't be, would there? And I've never spoken of him until now. Not to anyone, not even your grandfather. A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets. But now you know there was a man named Jack Dawson. And that he saved me. In every way that a person can be saved. I don't even have a picture of him. He exists now, only in my memory.
Jack: That's one of the good things about Paris: lots of girls willing to take their clothes off.
Tommy Ryan: Music to drown by. Now I know I'm in first class.
Rose: The last thing I need is another picture of me looking like a porcelain doll.
Jack: I'm the king of the world!
Caledon Hockley: Dawson? This is amazing! You could almost pass for a gentleman.
Jack Dawson: Almost.
Rose: I love you Jack.
Jack: Don't you do that, don't say any good-byes.
Rose: I'm so cold.
Jack: I don't know about you, but I intend on writing a strongly worded letter to the White Star Line about all of this. You're gonna go on, and make lots of babies, and watch them grow. You're gonna die an old lady, warm in your bed. Not here, not this night. Do you understand me? Winning that ticket, Rose, was the best thing that ever happened to me... It brought me to you. And I'm thankful for that, Rose. I'm thankful. You must do me this honor, Rose. Promise me you'll survive. That you won't give up, no matter what happens, no matter how hopeless. Promise me now, Rose, and never let go of that promise.
Rose: I promise.
Jack: Never let go.
Rose: I'll never let go. I'll never let go, Jack.
Bruce Ismay: But this ship can't sink!
Thomas Andrews: She's made of iron, I assure you, she can. And she will. It is a mathematical certainty.
Ruth: So this is the ship they say is unsinkable.
Cal Hockley: It is unsinkable. God himself could not sink this ship.
Thomas Andrews: Mr. Lightoller! Why are the boats being launched half full? There, look! 20 or so, in a boat built for 65? And I saw one boat with only twelve. Twelve!
Officer Lightoller: Well, we weren't sure of the weight, Mr. Andrews, these boats may buckle.
Thomas Andrews: Rubbish! These boats were tested in Belfast with the weight of 70 men! Now fill these boats, for God's sake man!
Man: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death...
Jack: You wanna walk a little faster to get over that valley, pal?
Rose DeWitt Bukater: Jack, must you go?
Jack Dawson: Time for me to go row with the other slaves.
Brock Lovett: Look, Rose, I don't know what to say to a woman who tries to jump off the Titanic when it's not sinking and jumps back on when it is.
Rose: Half the people on this ship are going to die.
Cal Hockley: Not the better half.
Thomas Andrews: From this moment on, no matter what to do, Titanic will founder.
Rose: It's so unfair.
Ruth: Of course it's unfair. We're women. Our choices are never easy.
Chosen answer: Because she is considered, in a minor sense, a "villain" in this film for forcing her daughter into a loveless arranged marriage to satisfy her personal wants, most fans probably speculate that she became a poor and penniless seamstress and lived out her life working in a factory. Of course, this is possible, without the financial security of the arranged marriage between Cal and Rose. However, it is difficult to believe that a woman of such status, and who has so many wealthy and powerful friends, would be allowed to languish in abject poverty doing menial labors. I would tend to believe that she probably sold a number of her possessions for money (she did mention that as part of the humiliation she would face if Rose were to refuse Cal's affections), and probably lived off the kindness of others. Given that her daughter was betrothed to a Hockley, his family might have felt an obligation to assist her in finding a suitable living arrangement and a situation for employment. It is also possible that she re-married into wealth. However, this is more unlikely, mainly because back in 1912, it was considered scandalous to re-marry, especially at Ruth's age. However, since Ruth does not make an appearance after surviving the sinking of the Titanic in a lifeboat number 6 (next to Molly Brown), nor is she mentioned again, her fate is left unknown and subject only to speculation.
Michael Albert
In that era, with Rose betrothed to Call, Cal would most definitely have provided for Ruth in the lifestyle she was accustomed to. As Cal angrily raged at Rose the morning after her excursion below decks, "You are my wife in custom if not yet in practice ", thus, society would have viewed him a villain had he not cared for Ruth once it was assumed Rose was dead.