No, no, you needn’t slap me; I am not at all hysterical. - Elizabeth Peters

If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask.
-Emerson

...Peabody had better retire to her bed; she is clearly in need of recuperative sleep, she has not made a sarcastic remark for fully ten minutes.

I would not be at all surprised to find that it was for gold that Cain committed the first murder. (It happened a very long time ago, and Holy Writ, though no doubt divinely inspired, is a trifle careless about details. God is not a historian).