The Courtship of Andy Hardy (1942)

Lewis Stone: Judge Hardy

Quotes 

• Judge Hardy : Well, I think a newspaper article should be about the length of a lady's skirt; long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to be interesting.

• Judge Hardy : I'll never know what explosive chemistry exists in a brother and sister to cause perpetual civil war.

• Judge Hardy : The ugliness of her surroundings have filled her with bitterness and resentfulness and destroyed all her illusions. I wonder if either of you realize the large percentage of criminal and delinquent girls that come from broken families. Is, uh, your daughter in any way the cause of this marriage breaking up?

  Roderick O. Nesbit : Well, no, of course not.

  Olivia Nesbit : No, no, of course not.

  Judge Hardy : Then why do you punish her? You cheat your child of her God-given right to a happy home, and the love and guidance of a father and mother.

• Marian Hardy : Dad, didn't you ever do anything your parents disapproved?

  Judge Hardy : Ha, ha, ha. I certainly did.

  Marian Hardy : You turned out pretty swell, we think.

  Judge Hardy : And I got into a lot of trouble in the process.