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)

    “What thou art is mine;
    Our state cannot be severed, we are one,
    One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.”
    —John Milton (1608–1674)