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:

    “Black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love.”
    —Turkish proverb.

    “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)

    “The sensation of seeing extremely fine women, with superb forms, perfectly unconscious of undress, and yet evidently aware of their beauty and dignity, is worth a week’s seasickness to experience.... To me the effect [of a Siva dance] was that of a dozen Rembrandts intensified into the most glowing beauty of life and motion.”
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)