Judge Langlois Quotes in Becoming Jane (2007)

Judge Langlois: I find irony is insult with a smiling face.

Judge Langlois: Wild companions, gambling, running around St James's like a neck-or-nothing young blood of the fancy. What kind of lawyer will that make?

Tom Lefroy: Typical.

Tom Lefroy: Good morning, sir.

Judge Langlois: Good morning? Has the world turned topsy?

Judge Langlois: [speaking to Tom Lefroy] If you hope, I say hope... If you aspire to inherit my property, you must prove yourself more worthy.

Judge Langlois: But what do we find?. We find dissipation wild enough to glut the imaginings of a Hottentot braggadocio.

Judge Langlois: [Tom just joked about lawyers] Humour? Well, you're going to need that because I'm teaching you a lesson. I'm sending you to stay with your other relations, the Lefroys.

Tom Lefroy: Uncle, they live in the country.

Judge Langlois: Deep in the country.

[chuckles]

Judge Langlois: Welcome...

Tom Lefroy: [walks in a circle and discreetly reminds his uncle] Madame le Comtesse.

Judge Langlois: Madame le Comtesse. Seldom, too seldom, my house receives the presence of nobility. And, of course, its friends. Please.