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Quotes About Whimsy

I am the very child of caprice and folly.
~ Walter Scott
Every night it's the same... I have supper in my red dish and drinking water in my yellow dish... Tonight I think I'll have my supper in the yellow dish and my drinking water in the red dish. Life is too short not to live it up a little!
~ Charles M. Schulz
There are times in life you wish dinosaurs weren't extinct and could be whistled to come and gulp you down.
~ Chetan Bhagat
Being a person is getting too complicated. Time to be a unicorn.
~ Internet meme, c. 2013
Each little princess had her own little plot of garden where she could dig and plant just as she liked. One made her flower-bed in the shape of a whale, another thought it nice to have hers like a little mermaid; but the youngest made hers quite round like the sun, and she would only have flowers of a rosy hue like its beams.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
making sense? what fun is there in making sense?"~ Discord
~ Hasbro My Little Pony
The Hemlock Tearoom and Stationery
~ Lemony Snicket
Here it is. You think you know someone and then next thing they tell you is that they want a Chihuahua named Chardonnay.
~ Janet Evanovich
I don't know what first got me to attack melons. It's not like I ate a bad one and got an upset stomach. It just eventually seemed like the appropriate fruit.
~ Ricky Jay
I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like things best when they're just done because they're fun or beautiful, or simply because they are what that one person wanted to do at that one time.
~ Edie Campbell
Leave us some unreality. Do not make us too offensively sane.
~ Oscar Wilde
Clearly, the Goddess has a sense of humor.
~ P.C. Cast
Why do dachshunds wear their ears inside out?
~ P.G. Wodehouse
And now into the space of a few hours he had crammed enough variegated lunacy to equip all the March Hares in England and leave some over for the Mad Hatters.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
A] single glance told him that here was somebody who was sitting on a pink cloud with a rainbow round his shoulder. Mr. Trout had not yet burst into song with a hey nonny nonny and a hotchacha, but when you said that you had said everything.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Sometimes all you need is a sprinkle of magic.
~ Pam Binder
I really love being human. But some days I really wish I could be a fairy.
~ Greta, age 4
Avoid being a 'groan' up.
~ James Simpson
If there's a magic pony in the story, chances are I'll read it.
~ Chris Adrian
and a whimsical ceramic sugar bowl shaped like an octopus.
~ Christa Faust
sharpened and the house will have an odd little way of opening doors by itself and leaning to one side.
~ Henry Beston
Gaiety and grief and despair and tenderness and triumph followed one another without any connection, like the emotions of a madman. And those emotions, like a madman's, sprang up quite unexpectedly.
~ Leo Tolstoy
If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?
~ Lewis Carroll
If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?
~ Lewis Carroll