The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1954) Quotes with Sound Clips

The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1954) Quotes with Sound Clips

Discover the power of miracles with quotes and sound bites from Alec Guinness' captivating performance in "The Man Who Could Work Miracles". A classic episode of Theatre Royal from 1954, based on the H.G. Wells novel.

Actors: Alec Guinness (Narrator / George Fotheringay)

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1 No more drinking in this town of intoxicating liquors. -Thank you. That, I feel sure, will be in the public interest.

— (Alec Guinness)

2 Now, what was that miracle that Moses did? Turned a stick into a snake. Well, that won't do. Not in the dark. I'd get bitten.

— (Alec Guinness)

3 Perhaps you'd also better turn all the beer in the public houses into water, just to be on the safe side.

4 The milkman was telling me this morning that as he came up the lane, behind the gasworks it was, he found a rose bush growing by the roadside in full bloom in the middle of November.

5 And who so makes his bargain with Mephistopheles, that good may accrue from it to himself, shall find in the fullness of time that the price must be paid in full.

— (Alec Guinness)

6 Take that tobacco jar on the table, for instance. What I want to know is whether what I'm going to do with it is a miracle or not.

— (Alec Guinness)

7 Tobacco jar, be a bowl of violets.

— (Alec Guinness)

8 Of course the moon won't stop. You'll have to stop the rotation of the earth, which will put a stop to time. Just till we finish what we're doing.

9 You don't believe, I suppose, that some common sort of person like myself, as it might be sitting here now, might have some sort of twist inside him that made him able to do things just by willpower?

— (Alec Guinness)

10 The way I look at it, a miracle is something contrary-wise to the course of nature, done by the power of will. If you like, something that couldn't happen without being especially willed.

— (Alec Guinness)

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