"The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely……" — Harry Houdini
"The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance."
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Harry Houdini
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37 Quotes by Harry Houdini
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My Brain is the key that sets me free.
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The greatest escape I ever made was when I left Appleton, Wisconsin.
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Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements.
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Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it.
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I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing…
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It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer.
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My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are…
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I must fling myself down and writhe; I must strive with every piece of force I possess; I bruise and…
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But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that…
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To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum,…
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Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite…
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Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline.
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More Brimstone Quotes
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Hell is not fire and brimstone, not a place where you are punished for lying or cheating or stealing. Hell…
— Stephen Levine
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So I departed, leaving behind a pungent smell of brimstone. Just something to remember me by.
— Jonathan Stroud
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Hell came right along with God, hand in hand. The stink of sulfur swirled in the air of the church,…
— Harry Crews
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From his brimstone bed, at break of day, A-walking the Devil is gone, To look at his little snug farm…
— Robert Southey
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Made up of the glories of the most precious gems, to describe them is a matter of inexpressible difficulty. For…
— Pliny the Elder
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RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and such of the unjust as have not…
— Ambrose Bierce
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At length, when I considered it, I realized that the best of my actions were small things. Picking flowers and…
— Sara Sheridan
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Represent to yourself a dark city all burning and stinking with fire and brimstone. The damned are in the depth…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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The Christian religion, then, is not an affair of preaching, or prating, or ranting, but of taking care of the…
— William Cobbett
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So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture.…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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Brimstone: '...I shall smite thee with my fightful blasting wand so that thy teeth shall drop out, thy skin shall…
— Herbie Brennan
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Then the lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of Heaven; and He…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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