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)

“Marriage is the highest state of friendship: If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)