Marriage Dowry Quotes & Sayings

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another. — Ovid

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

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

If a marriage is going to work well, it must be on a solid footing, namely money, and of that commodity it is the girl with the smallest dowry who, to my knowledge, consumes the most, to infuriate her husband. All the same, it is only fair that the marriage should pay for past pleasures, since it will scarcely procure any in the future. — Lord Chesterfield

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