One doesn't come to Italy for niceness," was the retort; "one comes for life. Buon giorno! Buon giorno!
Les masses ont tort et les individus toujours raison. The masses are wrong; individuals are always right.
Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.
What is the use of assuring Fundamentalists that science is compatible with religion. They retort at once, Certainly not with our religion.