For once, no eminent figure assumed the undignified pose involved in standing on one’s dignity. - Murray Leinster

Lon frowned. “They’re so far ahead of us,” he said uneasily, “that they could conquer us if they wanted to. And that’s bad!”
“Lon!” said the older man severely. “They’re civilized! Civilized men don’t want to conquer other men!”

They raise the question of whether I’ve been crazy, and am suddenly sane, or whether I’ve been sane up to now, and have suddenly gone crazy.

It is the custom of all men, everywhere, to be obtuse where women are concerned.