General Absolution

Famous quotes containing the words general and/or absolution:

“In the drawing room [of the Queen’s palace] hung a Venus and Cupid by Michaelangelo, in which, instead of a bit of drapery, the painter has placed Cupid’s foot between Venus’s thighs. Queen Caroline asked General Guise, an old connoisseur, if it was not a very fine piece? He replied “Madam, the painter was a fool, for he has placed the foot where the hand should be.””
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

“Forgive! How many will say, “forgive,” and find
A sort of absolution in the sound
To hate a little longer!”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)