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Kenneth Tynan quotes: The vengeful hag is played by Ingrid Bergman, which is like casting Eleanor Roosevelt as Lizzie Borden.

The vengeful hag is played by Ingrid Bergman, which is like casting Eleanor Roosevelt as Lizzie Borden.

Kenneth Tynan quotes: Any country that has sexual censorship will eventually have political censorship.

Any country that has sexual censorship will eventually have political censorship.

Kenneth Tynan quotes: Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.

Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.

Kenneth Tynan quotes: Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist.

Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist.

Kenneth Tynan quotes: When you've seen all of Ionesco's plays, I felt at the end, you've seen one of them.

When you've seen all of Ionesco's plays, I felt at the end, you've seen one of them.

Kenneth Tynan quotes: I hope I never need to believe in God. It would be an awful confession of failure.

I hope I never need to believe in God. It would be an awful confession of failure.

Kenneth Tynan quotes: No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.

No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.

Kenneth Tynan quotes: A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.

A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.

Kenneth Tynan quotes: A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

Kenneth Tynan quotes: If there's one thing I can't bear, it's people who are wise during the event.

If there's one thing I can't bear, it's people who are wise during the event.

Kenneth Tynan quotes: A villain who shares one's guilt is inevitably more attractive than a hero convinced of one's innocence.

A villain who shares one's guilt is inevitably more attractive than a hero convinced of one's innocence.

Kenneth Tynan quotes: Dichotomy = operation performed on lesbians to make them normal.

Dichotomy = operation performed on lesbians to make them normal.

Kenneth Tynan quotes: I doubt if I could love anyone who did not wish to see Look Back in Anger.

I doubt if I could love anyone who did not wish to see Look Back in Anger.

Kenneth Tynan quotes: There, standing at the piano, was the original good time who had been had by all.

There, standing at the piano, was the original good time who had been had by all.

Kenneth Tynan quotes: A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.

A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.

Kenneth Tynan quotes: The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.

The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.

Kenneth Tynan quotes: Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.

Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.

Kenneth Tynan quotes: A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.

A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.

Kenneth Tynan quotes: A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.

A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.

Kenneth Tynan quotes: Everyone is vulnerable who is at once gifted and gregarious.

Everyone is vulnerable who is at once gifted and gregarious.

Kenneth Tynan quotes: Drama criticism ... is a self-knowing account of the way in which one's consciousness has been modified during an evening at the theatre.

Drama criticism ... is a self-knowing account of the way in which one's consciousness has been modified during an evening at the theatre.

Kenneth Tynan quotes: A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.

A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.

Kenneth Tynan quotes: All of life is more or less what the French would call s'imposer, to be able to create one's own terms for what one does.

All of life is more or less what the French would call s'imposer, to be able to create one's own terms for what one does.

Kenneth Tynan quotes: It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness.

It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness.

Kenneth Tynan quotes: We shall be judged by what we do, not by how we felt while we were doing it.

We shall be judged by what we do, not by how we felt while we were doing it.

Kenneth Tynan quotes: A useful word previously unknown to me: 'ergophobia', meaning 'fear or hatred of work'. At last I can define myself in one word.

A useful word previously unknown to me: 'ergophobia', meaning 'fear or hatred of work'. At last I can define myself in one word.

Kenneth Tynan quotes: Coming to New York from the muted mistiness of London, as I regularly do, is like travelling from a monochrome antique shop to a technicolor bazaar.

Coming to New York from the muted mistiness of London, as I regularly do, is like travelling from a monochrome antique shop to a technicolor bazaar.

Kenneth Tynan quotes: The greatest films are those which show how society shapes man. The greatest plays are those which show how man shapes society.

The greatest films are those which show how society shapes man. The greatest plays are those which show how man shapes society.

Kenneth Tynan quotes: What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.

What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.

Kenneth Tynan quotes: Among the classic tastes: bread sauce, Nuits St Georges Les Perdrix 1962, Worcestershire sauce, Toblerone and Bovril.

Among the classic tastes: bread sauce, Nuits St Georges Les Perdrix 1962, Worcestershire sauce, Toblerone and Bovril.