Pekingese Quotes

• The world admits bears in pits do it, Even Pekingeses at the Ritz do it, Let's do it, let's fall in love.

  Cole Porter

  Falling In Love, Pits, World

  Song: Let's Do It

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• Mrs. Campbell once attempted to smuggle her pet Pekingese through customs by tucking him inside the upper part of her cape. "Everything was going splendidly," she later remarked, "until my bosom barked."

  Mrs. Patrick Campbell

  Funny, Dog, Travel

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• Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

  Edith Sitwell

  Success, Being Yourself, Secret

  "Edith Sitwell, a Unicorn Among Lions". Book by Victoria Glendinning (p. 54), 1981; later quoted in "An Uncommon Scold" edited by Abby Adams (p. 74), November 1, 1989.

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• The very fact that the jaguar can become extinct while the Pekingese survives indicates to me that someone hasn't thought this thing through.

  A. Whitney Brown

  Jaguars, Facts

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• I had a dog I raised for many years. He was a Pekingese with big eyes and a flat face, very cute.

  Stephen Chow

  Cute, Dog, Eye

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• If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

  Edith Sitwell

  Trying, Looks, Conformity

  Edith Sitwell (Dame), Elizabeth Salter, Allanah Harper (1976). “Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology”, Michael Joseph

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