Harpo Quotes

#1. I always preferred Harpo to Groucho Marx.

Lee Evans

#2. Bonkers is kind of a combination of Jerry Lewis and Harpo Marx, which is very strange because Harpo never spoke!

Jim Cummings

#3. Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon -but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx -the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?

Bob Dylan

#4. Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.

Harpo Marx

#5. He [Harpo] loved life and lived it joyously and deeply and that's about as good an epitaph as anyone can have.

Groucho Marx

#6. Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.

Walter Kerr

#7. I was a fan of the Marx Brothers. One of them had this character where he pretended not to be able to talk, but then he wrote this autobiography called 'Harpo Speaks!' He wrote about how he quit school at nine years old to become a professional.

Nile Rodgers

#8. The wisest people are the clowns, like Harpo Marx, who would not speak. If I could have anything I want I would like God to listen to what Harpo was not saying, and understand why Harpo would not talk.

Philip K. Dick

#9. I know of only six genuine comic geniuses in movie history; Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Groucho Marx & Harpo Marx, Peter Sellers, and W.C. Fields.

Woody Allen

#10. I'd always heard stories about how Harpo Marx was the most talkative of the Marx brothers. I found it interesting that someone you never got to hear speak in films would never not speak in real life.

Harmony Korine

#11. My name is whaddya care
My home is anywhere
People say I'm awful dumb
So I thought to you I'd come

Harpo Marx

#12. I am the most fortunate self-taught harpist and non-speaking actor who has ever lived.

Harpo Marx

#13. I was the same kind of father as I was a harpist - I played by ear.

Harpo Marx

#14. I feel like you can share as many jokes as you want to because no joke you do on Twitter is ever gonna be so big on Twitter, for the most part, that you can't say it on stage that same night.

W. Kamau Bell

#15. I come from a background of hanging out with friends and shooting videos with them, with funny stuff coming out of the group. I guess we got the same charge jocks get out of sports.

Michael Patrick Jann

#16. In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home.

Harpo Marx

#17. In 1944 James Arthur and Minnie Susan were added to the Marx household.

Harpo Marx

#18. Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told.

Harpo Marx

#19. Tomorrow's God says that every church is 'his church,' and every faith is 'her faith,' and every soul is God's soul, because it shares the same soul with God! .. And no person or living thing in the universe stands outside the community of God.

Neale Donald Walsch

#20. He looked like something that had gotten loose from Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Harpo Marx

#21. I don't know whether my life has been a success or a failure. But not having any anxiety about becoming one instead of the other, and just taking things as they come along, I've had a lot of extra time to enjoy life.

Harpo Marx

#22. Like father, like son: every good tree maketh good fruits.

William Langland

#23. Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.

Salma Hayek

#24. Drugs are for idiots. I'm never going to be that person.

Miley Cyrus

#25. The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before the man does.

Harpo Marx

#26. Why the fuck would I marry you? I don't even like you.

Lorelei James

#27. But I guess that's the way it is. When you lose something irreplaceable, you don't mourn for the thing you lost. you mourn for yourself.

Harpo Marx

#28. There are people that go ahead, that see problems before the rest, that take decisions before the rest.

Vicente Fox

#29. If things get too much for you and you feel the whole world's against you, go stand on your head. If you can think of anything crazier to do, do it.

Harpo Marx

#30. The launch of 'Tomb Raider III' was actually my first experience of the games industry.

Rhianna Pratchett

#31. In the fall of 1943 we brought home our second son, whom we named Alexander.

Harpo Marx

#32. I like jeans with sneakers or boots.

Jane Levy

#33. Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, were adopted by the kids as much as they were by us.

Harpo Marx