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) British playwright and critic
(Attributed)

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


 
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