Emphatic State

Famous quotes containing the words emphatic and/or state:

    Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.
    Jonathan Raban (b. 1942)

    Feign then what’s by a decent tact believed
    And act that state is only so conceived,
    And build an edifice of form
    For house where phantoms may keep warm.
    William Empson (1906–1984)