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The vengeful hag is played by Ingrid Bergman, which is like casting Eleanor Roosevelt as Lizzie Borden.
— Kenneth Tynan
Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.
— Kenneth Tynan
Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist.
— Kenneth Tynan
When you've seen all of Ionesco's plays, I felt at the end, you've seen one of them.
— Kenneth Tynan
A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.
— Kenneth Tynan
A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
— Kenneth Tynan
A villain who shares one's guilt is inevitably more attractive than a hero convinced of one's innocence.
— Kenneth Tynan
Dichotomy = operation performed on lesbians to make them normal.
— Kenneth Tynan
A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.
— Kenneth Tynan
The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.
— Kenneth Tynan
Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.
— Kenneth Tynan
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
— Kenneth Tynan
Everyone is vulnerable who is at once gifted and gregarious.
— Kenneth Tynan
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
A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.
— Kenneth Tynan
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
It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness.
— Kenneth Tynan
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
The greatest films are those which show how society shapes man. The greatest plays are those which show how man shapes society.
— Kenneth Tynan
