Quotes by Harry Houdini

Harry Houdini

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

Actors

Magician

Pretending

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

Done

Tricks

Wells

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

Alcohol

Burning

Cotton

Anyone who believes in magic is a fool.

Believe

Fool

Magic

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.

Integrity

Secret

Years

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.

Assistants

Honor

Secrecy

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

Disloyalty

Performers

Servant

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.

Coal

Fire

Kings

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

Elements

Fire

Terrible

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

Flames

Gasoline

Mouths

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Burning

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Church

Coal

Constant

Contagious

Cotton

Country

Dangerous

Disillusion

Disloyalty

Done

Eating

Elements

Enthusiasm

Evidence

Exposure

Eye

Facts

Fake People

Fighting

Figures

Fire

Flames

Fool

Freedom

Gasoline

Ghost

Great Day

Half

Hands

Honor

Hot

I'm Tired

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Iron

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Quotes by Harry Houdini

Harry Houdini

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

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

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

Anyone who believes in magic is a fool.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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