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Top 15 Ruth Downie Quotes (2025 Update)

Ruth Downie Quote: “Socrates was a wise man. Surveying the goods on a market stall, the great one was said to have remarked, “What a lot of things a man doesn’t need!”

1. “Socrates was a wise man. Surveying the goods on a market stall, the great one was said to have remarked, “What a lot of things a man doesn’t need!”

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Ruth Downie Quote: “They say opposites attract, but like meets like, too.”

2. “They say opposites attract, but like meets like, too.”

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Ruth Downie Quote: “I seem to remember sitting on a golden bench, and she started chattering about the sunset, or something. She seemed quite happy so I let her get on with it. Then she got hold of my hand and asked me what I was thinking about. So I said, “The treatment of anal fistulae”.”

3. “I seem to remember sitting on a golden bench, and she started chattering about the sunset, or something. She seemed quite happy so I let her get on with it. Then she got hold of my hand and asked me what I was thinking about. So I said, “The treatment of anal fistulae”.”

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Ruth Downie Quote: “But she’s only a woman!” The watch captain shook his head again. “So was Helen of Troy, sir. Look what she started.”

4. “But she’s only a woman!” The watch captain shook his head again. “So was Helen of Troy, sir. Look what she started.”

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Ruth Downie Quote: “Such was the cost of dealing with the Romans: even when one fought against them, the stain of their violence licked and crackled at the soul like a fire about to engulf an entire forest.”

5. “Such was the cost of dealing with the Romans: even when one fought against them, the stain of their violence licked and crackled at the soul like a fire about to engulf an entire forest.”

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Ruth Downie Quote: “Getting angry with her cousin, she reminded herself, was like getting angry with a sheep for being stupid. It ruined your day and the sheep was too dim to care.”

6. “Getting angry with her cousin, she reminded herself, was like getting angry with a sheep for being stupid. It ruined your day and the sheep was too dim to care.”

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Ruth Downie Quote: “Even now he could not say in his heart of hearts for which side he would draw his blade when he was finally called upon. What was a child of two worlds to do?”

7. “Even now he could not say in his heart of hearts for which side he would draw his blade when he was finally called upon. What was a child of two worlds to do?”

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Ruth Downie Quote: “Ruso’s working space contained three shelves, a collection of unmatched stools and chairs, an examination table by the window, and a desk whose migratory tendencies had been curbed by a previous incumbent with a hammer and several large nails.”

8. “Ruso’s working space contained three shelves, a collection of unmatched stools and chairs, an examination table by the window, and a desk whose migratory tendencies had been curbed by a previous incumbent with a hammer and several large nails.”

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Ruth Downie Quote: “Women are not always what we seem to be. What our reputations would tell you. Nor do we only exist in reference to our fathers, husbands, and sons.”

9. “Women are not always what we seem to be. What our reputations would tell you. Nor do we only exist in reference to our fathers, husbands, and sons.”

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Ruth Downie Quote: “Why did so many die in the night? As though they wished to kiss us and deliver us with sweet dreams before taking their leave of the world.”

10. “Why did so many die in the night? As though they wished to kiss us and deliver us with sweet dreams before taking their leave of the world.”

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Ruth Downie Quote: “Now I have seen what peace is like, I understand why you come to Britannia.”

11. “Now I have seen what peace is like, I understand why you come to Britannia.”

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Ruth Downie Quote: “But, when she was alone, someone rapped on the door and she found herself on her feet, knife in hand, before she had time to reason with her fear.”

12. “But, when she was alone, someone rapped on the door and she found herself on her feet, knife in hand, before she had time to reason with her fear.”

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Ruth Downie Quote: “But how can an ordinary girl not know this? Had Varana’s mother not bothered to teach her anything at all or just shouted complaints from a distance while her children fought and argued amongst themselves like wolf cubs?”

13. “But how can an ordinary girl not know this? Had Varana’s mother not bothered to teach her anything at all or just shouted complaints from a distance while her children fought and argued amongst themselves like wolf cubs?”

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Ruth Downie Quote: “Life is short, Hades is long. As Agathon says, you can’t change the past, and as Aristotle says – paraphrasing – things are as they are, it’s how we deal with them that counts.”

14. “Life is short, Hades is long. As Agathon says, you can’t change the past, and as Aristotle says – paraphrasing – things are as they are, it’s how we deal with them that counts.”

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Ruth Downie Quote: “Talking with this girl is like trying to catch fleas, you never know which way she was going to jump.”

15. “Talking with this girl is like trying to catch fleas, you never know which way she was going to jump.”

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Ruth Downie Quote: “Before long he felt the peaceful floating sensation of a man vaguely and happily aware that he is falling asleep.”

16. “Before long he felt the peaceful floating sensation of a man vaguely and happily aware that he is falling asleep.”

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