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Is it peace? and Jehu said,What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Kings 9:18.

O L, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo,O L, thou knowest it altogether. Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDPsalms139:1^6.

I'll come no more behind your scenes,David: for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  In conversation with the actor-manager David Garrick. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.1.

Ich sitze in dem kleinsten Zimmer in meinem Hause. Ich habe Ihre Kritik vor mir. Im n a« chsten Augenblick wird sie hinter mir sein. I am sitting in the smallest room of my house.I have your review before me. In a moment it will be behind me.

-Reger, Max
  Written in response to an unfavourable review by Rudolf Louis. Quoted in Nicolas Slonimsky Lexicon of Musical Invective (2nd edn,1969), p.139.

This Englishwoman is so refined She has no bosom and no behind.

-Smith, Stevie (Florence Margaret)
  A GoodTime was Had ByAll,'This Englishwoman'.

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