The pickpocket is usually very well dressed and of prepossessing appearance. — Harry Houdini Copy Share Image
Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it. — Harry Houdini Copy Share Image
It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer. — Harry Houdini Exposure Copy Share Image
An old trick well done is far better than a new trick with no effect. — Harry Houdini Copy Share Image
Keep up your enthusiasm! There is nothing more contagious than exuberant enthusiasm. — Harry Houdini Copy Share Image
My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day… — Harry Houdini Business Copy Share Image
Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline. — Harry Houdini Copy Share Image
Disloyalty in trusted servants is one of the most disheartening things that can happen to a public performer. — Harry Houdini Betrayal Copy Share Image
But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance… — Harry Houdini Allegiance Copy Share Image
I have made compacts with fourteen different persons that whichever of us died first would communicate with the other if it were… — Harry Houdini Copy Share Image
I always have on my mind the thought that next year I must do something greater, something more wonderful. — Harry Houdini Copy Share Image
No prison can hold me; no hand or leg irons or steel locks can shackle me. No ropes or chains can keep… — Harry Houdini Chains Copy Share Image
I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be… — Harry Houdini Copy Share Image
To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton… — Harry Houdini Copy Share Image
I am not an irretrievable skeptic. I am not hopelessly prejudiced. I am perfectly willing to believe, and my mind is wide… — Harry Houdini Copy Share Image
The great trouble with magicians is the fact that they believe when they have bought a certain trick or piece of apparatus,… — Harry Houdini Copy Share Image
But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have… — Harry Houdini Copy Share Image
I knew, as everyone knows, that the easiest way to attract a crowd is to let it be known that at a… — Harry Houdini Artist Copy Share Image
I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish… — Harry Houdini Country Copy Share Image
In all feats of fire-eating it should be noted that the head is thrown well back, so that the flame may pass… — Harry Houdini Eating Copy Share Image
My chief task has been to conquer fear. The public sees only the thrill of the accomplished trick; they have no conception… — Harry Houdini Copy Share Image
The Sun represents the right half of the body and the Moon the left half. — Harry Houdini Body Copy Share Image
Rosabelle - answer - tell - pray, answer - look - tell - answer, answer - tell. — Harry Houdini Copy Share Image
I am a great admirer of mystery and magic. Look at this life - all mystery and magic. — Harry Houdini Copy Share Image
Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter. — Harry Houdini Copy Share Image
A magician is only an actor - an actor pretending to be a magician. — Harry Houdini Actors Copy Share Image
Never try to fool children, they expect nothing, and therefore see everything... — Harry Houdini Child Copy Share Image
No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth. — Harry Houdini Copy Share Image
The greatest escape I ever made was when I left Appleton, Wisconsin. — Harry Houdini Escape Copy Share Image
Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements. — Harry Houdini Elements Copy Share Image
