Cary Grant Movie Quotes  
     
  To Catch a Thief (1955)  
     
     
  Cary Grant as John Robie:  
     
     
  Why did I take up stealing? To live better, to own things I couldn't afford, to acquire this good taste that you now enjoy and which I should be very reluctant to give up.  
     
   
     
  Give me a woman who knows her own mind.  
     
   
     
  Danielle, you are just a girl. She is a woman.  
     
   
     
  Germaine has very sensitive hands and an exceedingly light touch. She strangled a German general - without a sound.  
     
   
     
  Not only did I enjoy that kiss last night, I was awed by the efficiency behind it.  
     
   
     
   You don't have to spend every day of your life proving your honesty, but I do.  
     
   
     
  Tell me, have you ever been on a psychiatrist's couch?  
     
   
     
  You know what you want. You go out after it and nothing stops you from getting it.  
     
   
     
   Ah, pardon me while I get the water out of my ear.  
     
   
     
  You're a thief. Only an amateur thief, of course, but it will help you to sympathize with us professionals.  
     
   
     
  I know what I'd like to tell you!  
     
   
     
  What you need is something I have neither the time nor the inclination to give you... Two weeks with a good man at Niagara Falls.  
     
   
     
  You don't have to spend every day of your life proving your honesty, but I do.  
     
   
     
  Oh no, you're a jackpot of admirable character traits.  
     
   
     
  For what it's worth, I never stole from anybody who would go hungry.  
     
   
     
  Let's just go back to our mutual disregard of each other, hmm?  
     
   
     
  You are husband-hunting after all.  
     
   
     
  Why don't you invent some hot diamonds?  
     
   
     
  I must remember to yell 'Timber' occasionally.  
     
   
     
  My only comment would be highly censorable.  
     
   
     
  I guess I'm not the lone wolf I thought I was, Francie.