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Dowry Quotes

Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.

Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.

Mahatma Gandhi
Country, Women, Dowry
Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.213, Rajpal & Sons

The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.

Juvenal
Wife, Dowry, Objects

Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry.

Hosea Ballou
People, Dowry, Embrace

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid
Marriage, Society, Dowry
Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.316, Delphi Classics

It often happens, that misery will follow a marriage when the dowry is too large.

Decimius Magnus Ausonius
Dowry, Misery, Happens

A great dowry is a bed full of brables. [A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.]

George Herbert
Bed, Dowry

The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

Horace
Family, Parent, Dowry

I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry. [Lat., Uxorem accepi, dote imperium vendidi.]

Plautus
Taken, Wife, Dowry

The arrows are from her dowry.

Juvenal
Arrows, Dowry

If I do marry, I'll expect a pretty serious dowry. I'm talking goats, pigs, chickens, the works.

Dov Davidoff
Pigs, Talking, Dowry

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

Evelyn Waugh
Wine, Men, Dowry
Evelyn Waugh (1947*). “Wine in peace and war”

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