Wry Quotes

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

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

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.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

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

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

The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

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

The arrows are from her dowry.

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

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

No second chance?" A wry smile twisted Carrick's lips. "There might have been, had I not waited so long to take it.

Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.

Five years off my life... I wondered with a wry smile, would people be immortal if they didn't have kids?

What is it?" she asked. "I'm looking for your wings. You are my guardian angel, aren't you?" "I'm afraid not," she replied, her cheeks dimplingwith a wry smile. "There's too much of the devil in me for that." "Just how much devil," I grinned, "are we talking about here?

I see. So you playacted the role of a rake who was only pretending to be in earnest, knowing you would come across as though you had the lowest of motives, when in fact, you were sincere?” “Precisely.” She gave a short, wry laugh and shook her head at him. “Convoluted sir! You are a maze.” He shot her a sulky glance. “I thought you were going to say I was amazing.” “That, too,” she admitted with a rueful smile, capturing his square chin between her fingertips.

We'll meet you here. Hopefully everyone will be in human form." A wry smile. "Though I'll warn you, he's not a whole lot more pleasant that way. At least as a wolf, he can't talk.