evidence: Dear Quote Investigator: The sharpest example of repartee that I have ever heard about was a famous exchange between George Bernard Shaw and Winston Churchill about a pair of tickets to a play. [...] George Bernard Shaw is said to have told W.S.C.: [...] [EMJG] 1948 January 12, St. Joseph Gazette, Wisecracks of Churchill, Byrnes and Shaw Recalled by Bob Considine, Page 9, Column 2, St. Joseph, Missouri. (Google News Archive)