George Bernard Shaw…..

Once George Bernard Shaw asked a socialite if she would spend a night with him for a thousand pounds. The socialite snapped and said, “I am a respectable married woman. How dare you have the guts to ask me that!” Bernard asked, “How about ten thousand pounds?” This time she exploded threatening to call her husband. Still persistent, he offered a million pounds with the assurance that nobody would ever find out. This time, she said ‘perhaps’.

“What if I were to offer you only ten pounds?” he asked. “Mr. Shaw, you are insulting me!” the woman was shocked. “Who do you think am I?”

“We have already established who you are,” he pointed out calmly, “Now we are only haggling over the price.”