Correcting his wife's language after she had caught him with a chambermaid:

Mrs Webster: Noah, I'm surprised.
Noah Webster: No, my dear. You are amazed. It is we who are surprised.


As quoted in: The Reader's Digest, Volumes 34-35 (Reader's Digest Association, 1939), p. 132

Noah Webster Quotes

Mrs Webster: Noah, I'm surprised. Noah Webster: No, my dear. You are amazed. It is we who are surprised.

Mrs Webster: Noah, I'm surprised. Noah Webster: No, my dear. You are amazed. It is we who are surprised.

Mrs Webster: Noah, I'm surprised. Noah Webster: No, my dear. You are amazed. It is we who are surprised.

Mrs Webster: Noah, I'm surprised. Noah Webster: No, my dear. You are amazed. It is we who are surprised.