Well, as I said, it's a rather improbable story, but I can't think the author can have been pulling my leg out of respect for my cloth.
13 seconds sound clip from the The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1954) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:28:52 in the DVD version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- Oh dear, I wish I'd never started all this. Well, I'll see what I can do.
- Well, let me be back before ever the miracles began.
- And precisely nothing happened.
- After all, he was one of my parishioners.
- This is Ralph Richardson again.
- This week in our play, taken from H.G. Wells' story, The Man Who Could Work Miracles, Alec Guinness.
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