You put the evidence under their noses, and they start getting teary over snowball fights

This is the whole difficulty of dealing with them, men who are always talking about ancient pedigrees, and boyhood friendships, and things that happened when you were still trading wool on the Antwerp exchange. You put the evidence under their noses, and they start getting teary over snowball fights.

H. Mantel, Wolf Hall (2009), 510