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 spit
    honey out of my mouth:
    nothing is second-best
    after the sweet of Eros.””
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “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)

    “I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.”
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)