Dowry Quote by Plautus

You have your whole life ahead of you. Be smart. Study hard and be independent. I'm afraid the chances of your getting a dowry…

— Adeline Yen Mah

I am wedded to India because I owe my all to her.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Asking for dowry are the birthright of impoten

— Mak_786

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

— Plautus

Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases. [Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.]

— Plautus

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Similarly, women collectively are coerced into marriage although any woman is free to remain single. William Thompson compared women’s freedom to decline to marry…

— Carole Pateman

[To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine.

— Elizabeth I

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

— Dov Davidoff

Being married to a daughter of India is a natural complement of my being in this country for 30 years. My roots are very…

— Francois Gautier

Am totally opposed to dowry. This is a retrograde practice, and also illegal. Think about it can a relationship, built on foundation of money…

— Amir Khan

“Thus, the Law under which the marriage is solemnized would play a major role in determining the status; and consequent reliefs, if need be,…

— Henrietta Newton Martin