The New York Times: "...one of the more charming treatises to come along in years...In short, [Whimsy] glorifies almost every aspect of Homo Affectus...as [his] book points out, being a dandy is...about imagination, about dreaming up and acquiring and embodying a mixture of traits and clothes and habits peculiar to you. And if they seem peculiar to everyone else, well then, they had better catch up, hadn’t they?"

USA Today: “Written in something approximating the McSweeney’s style, this collection of essays, charts, and assorted silliness is deeply amusing."

Yahoo.com: “[Lord Whimsy] is a splendid raconteur and a canny quillsman…we are confident that you will find this dandy’s manicured musings a bracing tonic against the enervating drudgery of the modern world.”