James Ashford Quotes in Belle (2013)

James Ashford: Miss Lindsay. Not husband hunting, are we?

[approaching menacingly]

James Ashford: Good Lord, I forgot, you have ensnared my brother. Tell me, are you to share his dining room as well as his bed?

Dido Elizabeth Belle: Oh, Mr. James, your manners are as poor as your brother's finances.

Oliver Ashford: [referring to Dido Elizabeth Belle] She is intriguing, is she not?

James Ashford: [staring contemptuously at Dido] I find her repulsive.

Oliver Ashford: Well, I suppose she is... if you find a most rare and exotic flower so.

James Ashford: [contemptuously] One does not make a wife of the the rare and exotic, Oliver. One samples it on the cotton fields of the Indies.

Oliver Ashford: [chuckles] Why so far when it is right at my door?

James Ashford: Then find a pure English rose to decorate one's home.