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:

    “His purposes will ripen fast,
    Unfolding ev’ry hour;
    The bud may have a bitter taste,
    But sweet will be the flow’r.”
    —William Cowper (1731–1800)

    “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)

    “Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.”
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)