Queen Bee Quotes:

Just as the queen bee, the highest-ranking, peerless creature of her hive, is surrounded by lowly drones to please her, whereas the workers produce honey, the same way is the one who sits on the throne an equal only to himself, and no one's companion.

- Franz Grillparzer

topic: Queens, Power, Honey, Queen Bee

To be successful, one has to be one of three bees: the queen bee, the hardest working bee, or the bee that does not fit in.

- Suzy Kassem

source: "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

topic: Queens, Successful, Doe, Queen Bee

I'm just getting better and better. It's just like a bunch of worker bees protecting the king bee, because I'm not a queen bee. I'm a king bee.

- Shaquille O'Neal

topic: Basketball, Queens, Kings, Queen Bee, Worker Bees

If it were worth while to argue a paradox, one might maintain that nature regards the female as the essential, the male as the superfluity of her world. Perhaps the best starting-point for study of the Virgin would be a practical acquaintance with bees, and especially with queen bees.

- Henry Adams

source: Henry Adams (2017). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.248, BookRix

topic: Queens, Women, Males, Queen Bee

How I like claret!...It fills one's mouth with a gushing freshness, then goes down to cool and feverless; then, you do not feel it quarrelling with one's liver. No; 'tis rather a peace-maker, and lies as quiet as it did in the grape. Then it is as fragrant as the Queen Bee, and the more ethereal part mounts into the brain, not assaulting the cerebral apartments, like a bully looking for his trull, and hurrying from door to door, bouncing against the wainscott, but rather walks like Aladdin about his enchanted palace, so gently that you do not feel his step.

- John Keats

topic: Queens, Lying, Wine, Queen Bee, Cerebral