Magic is the only honest profession. A magician promises to deceive you and he does.

If you are a magician then you can always do a lot more magic than you think you can.

As a magician you will miss the hundred percent of the applause if you don't perform.

The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.

But the other Ministers considered that to employ a magician was one thing, novelists were quite another and they would not stoop to it.

A magician must always value his magic effects more than himself, because after few years audience may not remember his name but they will remember his magic effect.