A pet monkey is a monkey kept as a pet.
Monkeys have often been favourite pets of queens such as Catherine de' Medici and Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I. Mao Zedong's wife Chiang Ch'ing also had a favoured pet monkey.
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Famous quotes containing the words pet and/or monkey:
“Tom was a glittering hero once more—the pet of the old, the envy of the young. His name even went into immortal print, for the village paper magnified him. There were some that believed he would be President, yet, if he escaped hanging.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“I haven’t eaten in three days. I didn’t eat yesterday, I didn’t eat today and I’m not going to eat tomorrow. That makes it three days!”
—S.J. Perelman, U.S. screenwriter, Arthur Sheekman, Will Johnstone, and Norman Z. McLeod. Chico Marx, Monkey Business, a complaint shipboard stowaway Chico makes to fellow stowaway Groucho Marx (1931)