Quotes About Whimsy

Just remember: if ever you feel weighed down by the bureaucracy and often mundanity of modern life, don't fight the frustration. Let it be the catalyst for whimsy.

I'm a weird guy with a weird sense of humor.

I keep very weird hours. I never know when I'm going to get an idea.

Something will pop up in my head. It could be like the weirdest thing. Like all'a sudden like I have like a jumping banana in my head.

I'm a big fan of Amy Sedaris, and one of her decorating mainstays is to put googly eyes on everything.

He is only fanastical that is not in fashion.

You just make it up as you go along.

The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.

Fairyland is the loveliest word because it means everything the human heart desires.

But just think what a dull world it would be if everyone was sensible,' pleaded Anne.

Some are born old maids, some achieve old maidenhood, and some have old maidenhood thrust upon them , parodied Miss Lavendar whimsically.

Fancies are like shadows . . . you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.

it would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine, don't you think?

I'm going to imagine that I'm the wind that is blowing up there in those tree tops. When I get tired of the trees I'll imagine I'm gently waving down here in the ferns—and then I'll fly over to Mrs. Lynde's garden and set the flowers dancing—and then I'll go with one great swoop over the clover field—and then I'll blow over the Lake of Shining Waters and ripple it all up into little sparkling waves. Oh, there's so much scope for imagination in a wind!

where to blow from next for sheer crazy delight

the White Way of Delight.

None of it was sensible, yet he had to admit there was something about such follies that he liked. The sensible way, which he had pursued once or twice in his life, had always proved boring, usually within a few days. In his case it had led to nothing much, just excessive drunkenness and reckless card playing. There was more enterprise in certain follies, it seemed to him.

He wanted you dead, now he doesn't, I don't know why. Chimera's crazy, he doesn't need a reason to change his mind.

There is humor that's just whimsy, that we smile at, but the humor that we laugh at, someone has to be - someone's dignity has to be reduced.

splashed amidst a pillow-fight of pigeons

Life is too short to be serious

There seems to be within all of us an innate yearning to be lifted momentarily out of our own lives into the realm of charm and make believe.

Life is a fairy tale. Live it with wonder and amazement.

Life is too short to be taken seriously.