| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 27156 |
| QUOTATION: | Frances Stevens: Mother, this is why I’ve had to spend half my life running around the world after you—to keep men like this away from you.
Mrs. Stevens: Well after this, let me run my own interference. It looks like the blockers are having all the fun. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | John Michael Hayes (b. 1919), U.S. screenwriter, and Alfred Hitchcock. Frances Stevens (Grace Kelly), Mrs. Stevens (Jessie Royce Landis), To Catch a Thief, Frances criticizes her mother’s fondness for former jewel thief John Robie (Cary Grant). (1955).
From The Novel By David D... |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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