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)

    “Thou knowest in the state of innocency Adam fell, and what
    should poor Jack Falstaff do in the days in villainy?”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)