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Harry Houdini quotes

Ocupation: Stunt Performer

Life: March 24, 1874 - October 31, 1926

Birthday: March 24

Death: October 31

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My Brain is the key that sets me free.

Topics: Keys, Brain, Illusionists

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The greatest escape I ever made was when I left Appleton, Wisconsin.

Topics: Wisconsin, Made

Quotation Harry Houdini An old trick well done is far better than a Quotes

Never tell the auidience how good you are, they will soon find out for themselves.

Topics: Magic

Quotation Harry Houdini Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists because Quotes

Never try to fool children, they expect nothing, and therefore see everything...

Topics: Children, Magic, Trying

Quotation Harry Houdini The secret of showmanship consists not of what you really Quotes

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.

Topics: Integrity, Years, Secret

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.

Topics: Men, Records, Wonderful, Disillusion, Professional Life

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.

Topics: Country, Thinking, Russia

I'm tired of fighting, Dash. I guess this thing is going to get me.

Topics: Tired, Fighting, Tired Of Fighting

Keep up your enthusiasm! There is nothing more contagious than exuberant enthusiasm.

Topics: Magic, Enthusiasm, Contagious

No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.

Topics: Iron, Magic, Red, Red Hot

Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements.

source: - Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.1, 谷月社

Topics: Fire, Elements, Terrible

Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it.

Topics: Magic, Scientist, Accepted

My chief task has been to conquer fear. The public sees only the thrill of the accomplished trick; they have no conception of the tortuous preliminary self-training that was necessary to conquer fear.

Topics: Self, Training, Tasks, Conquering Fear

It is needless to say that women make the most patient as well as the most dangerous pickpockets.

Topics: Patient, Dangerous, Wells

No prison can hold me; no hand or leg irons or steel locks can shackle me. No ropes or chains can keep me from my freedom.

Topics: Iron, Hands, Rope, Shackles

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.

Topics: Country, Money, Thinking

Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter.

Topics: Men, Betrayed, Matter, One Man

In all feats of fire-eating it should be noted that the head is thrown well back, so that the flame may pass out of the open mouth instead of up into the roof, as it would if the head were held naturally.

Topics: Fire, Flames, Mouths, Feats

It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer.

Topics: Exposure, Performers, Stills

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.

Topics: Honor, Assistants, Secrecy, Pledge Of Allegiance

The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.

Topics: Fake People, Burning, Eating

Some say I do it this way, others say I do it that way, but I say I do it the other way.

Topics: Magic, Way

Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline.

Topics: Flames, Gasoline, Mouths, Saturated

I knew, as everyone knows, that the easiest way to attract a crowd is to let it be known that at a given time and a given place some one is going to attempt something that in the event of failure will mean sudden death. That's what attracts us to the man who paints the flagstaff on the tall building, or to the 'human fly' who scales the walls of the same building.

source: - "The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini‎". Book by Ruth Brandon, p. 153, 1993.

Topics: Wall, Mean, Men, Sudden Death, Tall Buildings

...the Sun represents the right half of the body and the Moon the left half...

Topics: Moon, Half, Body

Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol.

Topics: Alcohol, Balls, Coal, Burning Coal

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.

Topics: Secret, Church, Doe

The secret of showmanship consists not of what you really do, but what the mystery-loving public thinks you do.

source: - Harry Houdini (2016). “The Unmasking of Robert-Houdini”, p.247, Library of Alexandria

Topics: Thinking, Secret, Mystery, Showmanship

They do tricks even I can't figure out.

Topics: Law, Figures, Tricks

An old trick well done is far better than a new trick with no effect.

source: - Harry Houdini (2012). “The Right Way to Do Wrong: A Unique Selection of Writings by History's Greatest Escape Artist”, p.16, Melville House

Topics: Done, Tricks, Wells, Well Done

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.

Topics: Kings, Fire, Coal, Feats, Sensational

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.

Topics: Flames, Fire, Together, Lard, Limes

The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed.

Topics: Fire, Great Day, Should

What the eyes sees, the ear hears, and the mind belives.

Topics: Eye, Magic, Mind

I must fling myself down and writhe; I must strive with every piece of force I possess; I bruise and batter myself against the floor, the walls; I strain and sob and exhaust myself, and begin again, and exhaust myself again; but do I feel pain? Never. How can I feel pain? There is no place for it.

Topics: Wall, Pain, Down And, Fling

I always have on my mind the thought that next year I must do something greater, something more wonderful.

Topics: Years, Mind, Next Year

The great trouble with magicians is the fact that they believe when they have bought a certain trick or piece of apparatus, and know the method of procedure, that they are full-fledged mystifiers.

Topics: Believe, Pieces, Facts

Rosabelle - answer - tell - pray, answer - look - tell - answer, answer - tell.

Topics: Looks, Answers, Praying

Look at this life - all mystery and magic.

Topics: Magic, Looks, Mystery

My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion...

Topics: Records, Constant, Disillusion

A magician is only an actor - an actor pretending to be a magician.

Topics: Actors, Pretending, Magician

Anyone who believes in magic is a fool.

Topics: Believe, Magic, Fool

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.

Topics: Believe, Mind, Evidence

I do not believe that ghosts or spirits exist.

Topics: Believe, Spirit, Ghost

The pickpocket is usually very well dressed and of prepossessing appearance.

source: - Harry Houdini (2007). “The Right Way to Do Wrong: An ExposT of Successful Criminals”, p.40, Cosimo, Inc.

Topics: Appearance, Well Dressed, Wells

Disloyalty in trusted servants is one of the most disheartening things that can happen to a public performer.

source: - Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.42, 谷月社

Topics: Disloyalty, Disheartening

I'm tired of fighting...

source: - Last words, to his brother Theo, in Grace Hospital of Detroit, Michigan (30 October 1926), quoted in "Houdini, The Man Who Walked Through Walls" by William Lindsay Gresham, (p. 286), 1959.

Topics: Tired Of Fighting

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