Harry Houdini Quotes

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.

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

My Brain is the key that sets me free.

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

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

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

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

Look at this life - all mystery and magic.

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

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.

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

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

Anyone who believes in magic is a fool.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I do not believe that ghosts or spirits exist.

They do tricks even I can't figure out.

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

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

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

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