Mrs. Jessie Stevens [about her jewelry]
I didn't buy these things for my old age. I bought them to wear.
Played by Jessie Royce Landis 
To Catch a Thief (1955) · 43 quotes
To Catch a Thief (1955) · 43 quotes
4th most-quoted character in To Catch a Thief (1955): in 7 of its 43 quotes
A line from Mrs. Jessie Stevens [to Frances, about Robie]I wouldn't mind buying that for you.
More lines from Mrs. Jessie Stevens
6 quotes Mrs. Jessie Stevens Mrs. Jessie Stevens [to Hughson]
Put your money away, Hughson. You can cheat a little on your expense account.
Mrs. Jessie Stevens [about her late husband]
He never realized how valuable the ground was he had his feet on...We had a ranch. It wasn't a very big one. No plumbing. A little thing out back. Poor Jeremiah, he'll never know how close he came to twenty million barrels of oil.
Mrs. Jessie Stevens And so to bed where I can cuddle up to my jewelry...as rare and wonderful as they are, I think I'd rather have a hundred thousand Jeremiahs.
Mrs. Jessie Stevens I have no more affection for that jewelry than I have for a train ticket that gets me somewhere.
Mrs. Jessie Stevens Since when is love a crime?
