Harp Quote by Marcus Terentius Varro

Hang Irish harpers wherever found.

— Elizabeth I

“But it is only the three hundred, always only the three hundred, of whom the harpers sing.”

— Rosemary Sutcliff

“He may harp in the Dark One's Hall and take no harm, who is a true harper.”

— Tanith Lee

Fro and to in my dreams to you To the haunting tune of the harp For the price I paid when you died that…

— Maggie Stiefvater

The harp sounds at each passing breeze, but that does not mean the tune is masterfully played.

— Jacqueline Carey

Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp was old, and had…

— Charles Dickens

There's something fundamental to the harp that has retained its appeal my whole life. It's an instrument I am just in love with.

— Joanna Newsom

It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been.

— Christopher Reeve

I didn't sing for years and years, but I started playing harp when I was maybe 9 or 10. I had actually wanted to…

— Joanna Newsom

“My music teacher offered twittering madrigals and something about how, in Italy, in Italy, the oranges hang on the tree. He treated me -…

— Mary Rose O'Reilley

Two touch the string, The harp is dumb.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

During the reign of Rameses III (the Twentieth Dynasty) Egypt saw a flowering of its civilization and the harp became the royal instrument of…

— Corinne Heline