LORD NORTHCLIFFE: The trouble with you, Shaw, is that you look as if there were famine in the land.

SHAW: The trouble with you, Northcliffe, is that you look as if you were the cause of it.

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright and critic

(Attributed)

Exchange with Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe. Likely apocryphal.