From With a Bare Bodkin, by Cyril Hare:

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"There are moments when I feel that 'nothing' is the most beautiful word in the language."

[This is only accidentally related, given the 20th-century source above; but I recently read an analysis of lost double entendres in Shakespeare--lost because of pronunciation changes since the Bard's time. The one I recall related to "nothing" having been pronounced the same as "no thing," which in turn could refer to female anatomy. So here we can juxtapose the "divine monosyllable" with the "most beautiful word in the language."]

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Damn Phillips! Damn Edelman! Damn the Control and everything connected with it, including the Blenkinsop file!