Sweet Fanny Adams

Sweet Fanny Adams may refer to:

  • Fanny Adams (1859–1867), murdered by Frederick Baker, from whom comes the phrase "Sweet Fanny Adams" meaning "nothing at all"
  • Sweet Fanny Adams (album), 1974 album by Sweet

Famous quotes containing the words sweet, fanny and/or adams:

    I have heard the voice of a hound, just before daylight, while the stars were shining, from over the woods and river, far in the horizon, when it sounded as sweet and melodious as an instrument.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    here in hell
    We’re drinking tea from a Grecian Urn long after
    Your Paphian Fanny let tubercles quell
    Ethereal passion: I know it by your laughter!
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “If Washington were President now, he would have to learn our ways or lose his next election. Only fools and theorists imagine that our society can be handled with gloves or long poles. One must make one’s self a part of it. If virtue won’t answer our purpose, we must use vice, or our opponents will put us out of office, and this was as true in Washington’s day as it is now, and always will be.”
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)