Top 27 Quotes About Dower: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Dower

#1. Mrs. Dower was gray. Her clothes, her hair, and the cloud above her head were all a shade of dark gray. With every breath she seemed to expel an invisible vapot of gloom.

Ellery Adams

#2. Heroic deeds, to use whatever dower Heaven has bestowed, to test our utmost power.

Sarah Knowles Bolton

#3. The dower of great beauty has always been misfortune, since happiness and beauty do not agree together.

Pedro Calderon De La Barca

#4. All will be gay when noontide wakes anew
The buttercups, the little children's dower.

Robert Browning

#5. Pluck not the wayside flower;
It is the traveler's dower.

William Allingham

#6. A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.

Joseph Addison

#7. At some glad moment was it nature's choice to dower a scrap of sunset with a voice?

Edgar Fawcett

#8. Let it be so; thy truth then be thy dower:

William Shakespeare

#9. For the Sensitive Plant has no bright flower; Radiance and odour are not its dower; It loves, even like Love, its deep heart is full, It desires what it has not, the beautiful.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#10. Dreams are the subtle Dower
That make us rich an Hour
Then fling us poor
Out of the purple door.

Emily Dickinson

#11. Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower,
We feel that we are greater than we know.

William Wordsworth

#12. I would dower you with experience, without experience.
and I, in my turn, would pass that on to you.
But we make our own mistakes. We sleep unwisely

Neil Gaiman

#13. Love of truth will bless the lover all his days; yet when he brings her home, his fair-faced bride, she comes empty-handed to his door, herself her only dower.

Theodore Parker

#14. And one would worship a woman whom all perfections dower, But the other smiles at transparent wiles; and he quotes from Schopenhauer . Thus two by two we wrangle and blunder about the earth, And that body we share we may not spare; but the Gods have need of mirth.

James Branch Cabell

#15. Her beauty is the least of her dower-and she is the most beautiful woman I've ever known. That laugh of hers! I've angled all summer to evoke that laugh, just for the delight of hearing it.

L.M. Montgomery

#16. They set off through the soft lingering light. One cuckoo in the depths of Layer Wood and one in the dense shrubbery of the Dower House were keeping up their eternal question and answer, and in the comparative coolness which had come with the evening all the scents of summer had magnified.

Norah Lofts

#17. Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragon-fly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky: So this winged hour is dropt to us from above. Oh! clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower, This close-companioned inarticulate hour When twofold silence was the song of love.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

#18. What the diary does not reveal, for it stops too soon, is the appalling fact that from late 1945 until 1952 Japanese medical researchers were prohibited by U.S. occupation authorities from publishing scientific articles on the effects of the atomic bombs.

John W. Dower

#19. I think actors are divided into two groups: one that wants to be an actor to become famous and rich, and the other that wants to be an actor because they have to be. I'm more in the second group.

Franka Potente