Harry Houdini quotes

Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements. (Harry Houdini)
But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath.
Harry Houdini
I'm tired of fighting, Dash. I guess this thing is going to get me.
Harry Houdini
Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter.
Harry Houdini
I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.
Harry Houdini
I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary.
Harry Houdini
Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline.
Harry Houdini
How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public.
Harry Houdini
What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes.
Harry Houdini
I am a great admirer of mystery and magic. Look at this life - all mystery and magic.
Harry Houdini
Rosabelle - answer - tell - pray, answer - look - tell - answer, answer - tell. (Harry Houdini)
My Brain is the key that sets me free.
Harry Houdini
Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it.
Harry Houdini
A magician is only an actor - an actor pretending to be a magician.
Harry Houdini
I am not an irretrievable skeptic. I am not hopelessly prejudiced. I am perfectly willing to believe, and my mind is wide open; but I have, as yet, to be convinced. I am perfectly willing, but the evidence must be sane and conclusive.
Harry Houdini
The pickpocket is usually very well dressed and of prepossessing appearance.
Harry Houdini
No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.
Harry Houdini
But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have been before the public my secret methods have been steadily shielded by the strict integrity of my assistants, most of whom have been with me for years.
Harry Houdini
It is needless to say that women make the most patient as well as the most dangerous pickpockets.
Harry Houdini
My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.
Harry Houdini
Pickpockets either work alone or in pairs, or what is called a mob. (Harry Houdini)
To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm.
Harry Houdini
Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat.
Harry Houdini
It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer.
Harry Houdini
Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol.
Harry Houdini