- Frances Stevens: Even in this light, I can tell where your eyes are looking.
- [fireworks]
- Frances Stevens: Look, John. Hold them. Diamonds... The only thing in the world you can't resist. Then tell me you don't know what I'm talking about.
- [fireworks]
- Frances Stevens: Ever had a better offer in your whole life? One with everything?
- [fireworks]
- John Robie: I've never had a crazier one.
- Frances Stevens: Just as long as you're satisfied!
- [fireworks]
- John Robie: You know as well as I do: this necklace is imitation.
- Frances Stevens: Well, I'm not.
- John Robie: Say something nice to her, Danielle.
- Danielle Foussard: She looks a lot older up close.
- [John Robie whimpers]
- Frances Stevens: To a mere child, anything over twenty might seem old.
- Danielle Foussard: A child? Shall we stand in shallower water and discuss that?
- John Robie: You're here in Europe to buy a husband.
- Frances Stevens: The man I want doesn't have a price.
- John Robie: Well, that eliminates me.
- John Robie: Danielle, you are just a girl. She is a woman.
- Danielle Foussard: Why do you want to buy an old car if you can get a new one cheaper? It will run better and last longer.
- John Robie: [In reference to a beautiful villa they are visiting] Why don't you own a place like this?
- Frances Stevens: Palaces are for royalty. We're just common people with a bank account.
- Frances Stevens: I called the police from your room and told them who you are and everything you've been doing tonight.
- John Robie: Everything? The boys must have really enjoyed *that* at headquarters!
- Frances Stevens: I have a feeling that tonight you're going to see one of the Riviera's most fascinating sights.
- [pause]
- Frances Stevens: I was talking about the fireworks!
- John Robie: I never doubted it.
- Frances Stevens: The way you looked at my necklace, I didn't know...
- H. H. Hughson: The pastries are light as air.
- John Robie: Germaine has very sensitive hands and an exceedingly light touch. She strangled a German general - without a sound.
- Frances Stevens: Doesn't it make you nervous to be in the same room with thousands of dollars worth of diamonds, and unable to touch them?
- John Robie: No.
- Frances Stevens: Like an alcoholic outside of a bar on Election Day?
- John Robie: Wouldn't know the feeling.
- Jessie Stevens: I know you ought to be spanked with a hairbrush and sent back to school - public school - where they could pound some sense into you during recess.
- John Robie: I only regret one thing.
- Danielle Foussard: That you never asked me to marry you?
- John Robie: No, that I ever took the time to teach you English.
- Frances Stevens: Are you sure you were talking about water skis? From where I sat it looked as though you were conjugating some irregular verbs.
- John Robie: Miss Stevens?
- Frances Stevens: Yes, Mr. Burns?
- John Robie: You know what I think?
- Frances Stevens: About what?
- John Robie: You.
- Frances Stevens: I don't really care.
- H. H. Hughson: How many did you kill?
- John Robie: 72. But, I know something that'll please you: none of them were insured.
- John Robie: Danielle, do me a favor. Don't call me a cat.
- Danielle Foussard: I only do one favor a day.
- Foussard: [he says something angrily to Danielle in French]
- John Robie: Will you do as your father here asks?
- Danielle Foussard: [mockingly] Did I brush your fur the wrong way?
- H. H. Hughson: You are a man of obvious good taste in everything. Why did you...
- 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.
- H. H. Hughson: Then you are frankly dishonest.
- John Robie: I try to be.
- Frances Stevens: I've never caught a jewel thief before. It's stimulating. It's like... It's like...
- John Robie: Like sitting in a hot tub?
- Jessie Stevens: Why do you think we moved so often? Your father was a swindler, dear, but a lovable one. If you ask me, this one's a bigger operator on every level.
- John Robie: Thank you, madam.
- John Robie: You know, I have about the same interest in jewelry that I have in politics, horseracing, modern painting or women who need weird excitement. None!
- John Robie: Well, we only met a couple of minutes ago.
- Danielle Foussard: That's right, only a few minutes ago.
- Frances Stevens: Only a few minutes ago? And you talk like old friends... Ah, well, that's warm, friendly France for you.
- John Robie: I only regret one thing.
- Danielle Foussard: That you never asked me to marry you?
- John Robie: No. That I ever took the time to teach you English.
- Danielle Foussard: You only taught me the nouns. I learned the adjectives myself.
- Frances Stevens: Maybe Mr. Hughson doesn't care for gambling.
- Jessie Stevens: Everyone likes to gamble in one way or another, even you!
- Frances Stevens: I have an intense dislike for it.
- Jessie Stevens: Francie, dear, when the stakes are right, you'll gamble!
- Danielle Foussard: I heard some talk in the kitchen. They say, "What a pity if they must kill The Cat!"
- Jessie Stevens: Just why did you come to the Riviera, anyway?
- John Robie: To meet someone as charming as you.
- Jessie Stevens: Boy, now l am going to have you investigated.