My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion... — Harry Houdini Constant Copy Share Image
Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it. — Harry Houdini Accepted Copy Share Image
Keep up your enthusiasm! There is nothing more contagious than exuberant enthusiasm. — Harry Houdini Contagious Copy Share Image
The Sun represents the right half of the body and the Moon the left half. — Harry Houdini Body Copy Share Image
No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth. — Harry Houdini Hot Copy Share Image
Never try to fool children, they expect nothing, and therefore see everything... — Harry Houdini Child Copy Share Image
Pickpockets either work alone or in pairs, or what is called a mob. — Harry Houdini Alone 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 Flames 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
I have made compacts with fourteen different persons that whichever of us died first would communicate with the other if it were… — Harry Houdini Different person Copy Share Image
I always have on my mind the thought that next year I must do something greater, something more wonderful. — Harry Houdini Greater Copy Share Image
It is needless to say that women make the most patient as well as the most dangerous pickpockets. — Harry Houdini Dangerous Copy Share Image
Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol. — Harry Houdini Alcohol Copy Share Image
The secret of showmanship consists not of what you really do, but what the mystery-loving public thinks you do. — Harry Houdini Mystery 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 Burned 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 Believe 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
My chief task has been to conquer fear. The public sees only the thrill of the accomplished trick; they have no conception… — Harry Houdini Accomplished Copy Share Image
A common pickpocket trick is for the operator to carry a shawl or overcoat carelessly over the left arm, and to take… — Harry Houdini Arm Copy Share Image
The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance. — Harry Houdini Burning Copy Share Image
Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known… — Harry Houdini Charcoal Copy Share Image
The pickpocket is usually very well dressed and of prepossessing appearance. — Harry Houdini Appearance Copy Share Image
An old trick well done is far better than a new trick with no effect. — Harry Houdini Done Copy Share Image
Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter. — Harry Houdini Betrayed Copy Share Image
A magician is only an actor - an actor pretending to be a magician. — Harry Houdini Actors Copy Share Image
The greatest escape I ever made was when I left Appleton, Wisconsin. — Harry Houdini Escape Copy Share Image
I'm tired of fighting, Dash. I guess this thing is going to get me. — Harry Houdini Fighting 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
It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer. — Harry Houdini Exposure Copy Share Image
I am a great admirer of mystery and magic. Look at this life - all mystery and magic. — Harry Houdini Admirer Copy Share Image
Rosabelle - answer - tell - pray, answer - look - tell - answer, answer - tell. — Harry Houdini Answers Copy Share Image
