I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a…

But there were women in the world, and from them each of our heroes had taken to himself a wife. The good ladies were…

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.

— Plautus

As Indian citizens, we subsist on a regular diet of caste massacres and nuclear tests, mosque breakings and fashion shows, church burnings and expanding…

— Arundhati Roy

What philosopher of the schoolroom, with the mental dowry of four summers, ever questions the power of the wand that opened the dark eyes…

— Robert Aris Willmott

“Dowry doesn't rhyme with many words, so I had to rhyme dowry and peach tree [...] My nephew will inherit the estate, but the…

— Eloisa James

“The marriage broker had assured her the groom’s family was more concerned about the colour of Malli’s skin than the size of her dowry.”

— Rasana Atreya

I like Daniel. He takes care of you." I blinked. "Oh my God. Did you really just say that? He takes care of me?"…

— Kelley Armstrong

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

— Juvenal

If a marriage is going to work well, it must be on a solid footing, namely money, and of that commodity it is the…

— Lord Chesterfield

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

— Hosea Ballou

“The purpose behind your aggravating persistence eludes me, sirrah. What is it exactly that you wish to know? Lord Lucien is a fine, noble…

— Marsha Canham

“That exactly is how my father and mother met and became man and wife. There were no home ceremonials, such as the seeking and…

— Sol T. Plaatje

“If you think that educating your girl is enough for her to tackle the boundaries of tradition, then you are wrong. You have to…

— Neelam Saxena Chandra

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

— Decimius Magnus Ausonius

If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt…

— William Shakespeare