I Admire Wit and Intelligence

''I am enclosing two tickets for the first night of my new play; bring a friend, if you have one.''
Georges Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill

''Cannot possibly attend the first night; will attend the second... if there is one.''
Winston Churchill in response.

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diablesse · 56-60, F

I love this exchange between those two great minds that were armed with equal wit. I love Churchill's sense or repartee.

MrSquishy · 56-60, M

It would have been quite something to have both of them around the same dinner table.