# Best Harpo Marx Lines **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 16, 2003, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-harpo-marx-lines/207721 "2003-10-16T03:10:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dizzy\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dizzy\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dizzy_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-harpo-marx-lines/207721/1 "2003-10-16T03:10:40Z")
_honk_ ---
**Author:** ![sjc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@sjc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sjc)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-harpo-marx-lines/207721/2 "2003-10-16T03:15:42Z")
_honk, honk_ [Groucho]And two eggs![/Groucho] ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-harpo-marx-lines/207721/3 "2003-10-16T03:16:16Z")
I preferred his immortal: ---
**Author:** ![Heller\_Highwater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/278dde/32.png) [@Heller\_Highwater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heller_Highwater)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-harpo-marx-lines/207721/4 "2003-10-16T03:32:37Z")
Hoping this doesn’t doublepost… _whistles_ [Chico]Doctor Hack-en-a-puss[/Chico] _whistles again_ [Chico]He’s got a snake[/Chico] Alternately, the entire “phone conversation” he has in Duck Soup. Excellent use of horns and facial expressions. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-harpo-marx-lines/207721/5 "2003-10-16T03:52:39Z")
I’ve posted hundreds of great lines here on the Boards. Do a search. - Exapno Mapcase (if you have to ask, you shouldn’t be in this thread) ---
**Author:** ![Raymond\_Luxury\_Yacht](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raymond_luxury_yacht/32/4099_2.png) [@Raymond\_Luxury\_Yacht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raymond_Luxury_Yacht)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-harpo-marx-lines/207721/6 "2003-10-16T04:00:21Z")
Since he had only one line, it would have to be, “Ah-choo!” in _At the Circus_. He may have also been part of the quartet singing “Sweet Adeline” from inside the herring barrells in _Monkey Business_. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-harpo-marx-lines/207721/7 "2003-10-16T04:01:38Z")
“You sure you can’t move?” There, I got 'em all. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![don\_Jaime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b4bc9f/32.png) [@don\_Jaime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_Jaime)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-harpo-marx-lines/207721/8 "2003-10-16T04:30:44Z")
From his retirement party: “Now, as I was about to say in 1907…” ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-harpo-marx-lines/207721/9 "2003-10-16T09:57:19Z")
Does lipsynching count? “If a mockingbird, could sing like you, it’d sing much sweeter than it do” (might not have the lyrics right) ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-harpo-marx-lines/207721/10 "2003-10-16T10:13:35Z")
It’s actually “If the nightingale could sing like you, they’d sing much sweeter than they do.” But that’s pretty much the same. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-harpo-marx-lines/207721/11 "2003-10-16T16:39:31Z")
"Unaccustomed as I am to public speaking . . . " – When he said he was asked to speak at a banquet or such (see “Harpo Speaks”). Brought down the house every time. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-harpo-marx-lines/207721/12 "2003-10-16T17:53:27Z")
I liked his Maurice Chevalier impersonation. ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-harpo-marx-lines/207721/13 "2003-10-16T18:39:16Z")
He _was_ a horny devil. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-harpo-marx-lines/207721/14 "2003-10-16T18:50:59Z")
You know, he _did_ write an entire book, **Harpo Speaks**. The cover drawing is a cartoon of him unzipping his mouth. I haven’t read it, but I’m sure it’s full of good lines. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-harpo-marx-lines/207721/15 "2003-10-16T20:58:21Z")
To be technical - and realistic, Rowland Barber wrote _Harpo Speaks_, but I’m pretty sure that Harpo probably contributed something to it.