Top 451 Queens Quotes & Sayings

Pawns are really queens in disguise.

My grandmother told a story that when they used to leave from Southampton to go into the City, because he had apartment buildings in Queens - I was born in Astoria, Queens - they had apartment buildings in Queens and Manhattan, different businesses, and she wanted to pick blueberries on the side of the road and he wouldn't stop, so my grandma used to throw her purse out the window. She never had less than $4,000 cash, back in the 20s, and he would then stop the car and she would pick blueberries. And, he never had a record.

There's drag queens who lip sync brilliantly. There's drag queens who sing live brilliantly - none of those are me.

I have played queens on screen in the past.

It's not just putting on a little bit of makeup and putting on a dress. Some drag queens duct tape their heads, some drag queens are bound and strapped and pulled in every which direction. To be in drag is no small endeavor.

They call me a legend in my own time, because there were so many queens gone that I'm one of the few queens left from the '70s and the '80s.

Christmas Queens' is a family effort!

News flash, lady. There are no queens anymore,” Shane said. He loaded shells in a shotgun and snapped it shut, then searched for a place to strap it on that didn’t interfere with the flamethrower. “No queens, no kings, no emperors. Not in America. Only CEOs. Same thing, but not so many crowns.

I've seen some very beautiful drag queens.

I don't understand women who try to be glamour queens.

I'm a Queens boy at the end of the day.

Drag queens are not pathetic creatures. Drag queens are fabulous and fun.

The queens in history compare favorably with the kings.

WHAT is America but beauty queens, millionaires, stupid records and Hollywood?

We love to entertain kings and queens, but at Disneyland, everyone is a V.I.P.

I always say that drag queens are like an exaggeration of women, and I'm like an exaggeration of drag queens. People ask, 'Why do you do your makeup so differently?' and I always say, 'Well, in a subversive art form, ask yourself why so many drag queens do their makeup exactly the same.' If you can do anything, why does everybody do the same thing?

Some of my favorite drag queens are women.

There have always been drag queens everywhere.

My fashion icons range from bubblegum pop princesses to grunge queens.

I go to Queens for queens to get the crew from Brooklyn, Make money in Manhattan and never been tooken. Go Uptown and the Bronx to boogie down, Get strong on the Island, recoup, and lay around.

'Scream Queens' is its own reality.

This requires a level of delusion/egomania usually reserved for popes and drag queens

Our Feastival of Queens area, which featured five different authentic ethnic foods from Queens, was one of the most popular areas of the festival, and was written about in a number of different reviews.

I just produced Criminal, this remake of Nine Queens, and one of the things that appealed to me about Nine Queens is that it was a performance piece, and that's the most fun.

There definitely has been this kind of Hollywood swing back from the pendulum of, 'OK, we're gonna do gay people; we're gonna do queens.' And then it's like, 'No, no, no queens. Queen is too much.'

Queens you must always be: queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and your sons, queens of higher mystery to the world beyond. . . . But alas, you are too often idle and careless queens, grasping at majesty in the least things, while you abdicate it in the greatest.

I am a native of Hollis, Queens, N.Y.

Queens perhaps perform better in the role of monarch because they never take their position for granted. Many kings have failed because they believed that the public would love them whatever they did. Queens knew better.

Drag is pastiche and parody and satire. Drag queens are never meant to be stars. We make fun of stars. Drag queens are the people that 'point' at the star.

The greatest truths in life are the ones your fellow queens are willing to tell you.

In the gay community there are not very many Jewish drag queens. I've always found that funny because there are a lot of Jewish gay people out there, so why aren't there more Jewish drag queens?

'Scream Queens' was so much fun, kind of like a big sorority. And 'American Horror Story' is very serious, like a really hip family of middle-aged women. The deaths were fun on 'Scream Queens'; the deaths on 'Horror Story' are very real and intense, and you have to be emotionally prepped for them.

Sometimes I write for other drag queens.

There's no union for drag queens.

Drag really isn't just about exaggerating and celebrating femininity. Some drag queens want to look like monsters, some drag queens want to look like hot dogs. Really what it is is just dipping your toes in all the swimming pools of identity and allowing yourself. Because society really tries to compartmentalize humans in a certain way.

I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more.

I had no sympathy for drama queens.

Christine and the Queens is about not being safe.

Seasoned queens can also learn new tricks, right?

I had to do a lot of dancing in 'Queens of Country.'

I had so much fun working with the queens on 'Drag Race U.K!'

I have walked majestically with kings and queens and presidents and other heads of states.

Me, I look in the mirror and all I see is this Jewish kid from Queens.

You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's not over the Atlantic Ocean.

My favorite drag queens are Tammie Brown and Katya, so I like my drag queens a little left of sanity.

There's an old guard of drag, like the queens who got as big as they could possibly get before there was a TV show dedicated to drag queens.

It's a primitive thing, kings and queens.

I live in N.Y.C.; Latin queens are sick'ning!

I love that everyone on 'Scream Queens' has a moment where they are the hero, and they are the villain.

Queens is so often treated as a stepchild and labeled as an outer borough. At the very least, if I could help bring more attention to what we need, and what the federal government needs to do to improve the quality of life of people right here in Queens - any way that I can do that, I'm very happy to do that.

A word of advice for all the aspiring drag queens out there: be resourceful.

The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens.

There are bigger queens of the selfie, but I'm up there.

Tortall and the Queens Riders!

I come from a working-class background in Queens, New York.

Will you not covet such power as this, and seek such throne as this, and be no more housewives, but queens? There is no putting by that crown; queens you must always be; queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and sons; queens of higher mystery to the world beyond. . . . But alas! you are too often idle and careless queens, grasping at majesty in the least things, while you abdicate it in the greatest.

I'm just a boy with a dream from Queens. Just a queen from Queens.

I'd love to do a show in Vegas with drag queens. The tackier the better.

One day mom sat down and says, 'I'm moving my children to Queens. There was this quiet in the room and then everyone burst out laughing. Moving to Queens for us was like moving to Mars. It was like breaking out of poverty, the ultimate in luxury.

I grew up in the projects in Queens, and we were really poor.