Quotes from Jessie Royce Landis movies and TV shows

Jessie Stevens: Sorry I ever sent her to finishing school. I think they finished her there.

Frances Stevens: My nerves could stand a drink.
Jessie Stevens: Your nerves and your mother.

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.

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.

Frances Stevens: Maybe Mr. Houston 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.