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title: "2 Fist Quotes By Kenneth Tynan"
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> [Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clenches his fist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-tynan/not-content-to-have-the-audience-in-the-palm-of-his-hand-he-goes-one/)

[Kenneth Tynan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-tynan/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a58/kenneth-tynan-13245_audience_not-content-to-have-the-audience-in-the_634777.png)

> [Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-tynan/not-content-to-have-the-audience-in-the-palm-of-his-hand-he-goes-one-2/)

[Kenneth Tynan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-tynan/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7c5/kenneth-tynan-13245_audience_not-content-to-have-the-audience-in-the_1646232.png)

## More by Kenneth Tynan

> [Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-tynan/art-and-ideology-often-interact-on-each-other-but-the-plain-fact-is/)

[Kenneth Tynan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-tynan/)

> [I doubt if I could love anyone who did not wish to see Look Back in Anger.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-tynan/i-doubt-if-i-could-love-anyone-who-did-not-wish-to-see-look-back-in/)

[Kenneth Tynan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-tynan/)

> [No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-tynan/no-theater-could-sanely-flourish-until-there-was-an-umbilical/)

[Kenneth Tynan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-tynan/)

> [What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-tynan/what-when-drunk-one-sees-in-other-women-one-sees-in-garbo-sober/)

[Kenneth Tynan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-tynan/)

> [Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-tynan/pearl-is-a-disease-of-oysters-levant-is-a-disease-of-hollywood/)

[Kenneth Tynan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-tynan/)

> [Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clenches his fist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-tynan/not-content-to-have-the-audience-in-the-palm-of-his-hand-he-goes-one/)

[Kenneth Tynan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-tynan/)

> [A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-tynan/a-good-many-inconveniences-attend-playgoing-in-any-large-city-but-the/)

[Kenneth Tynan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-tynan/drama-criticism-is-a-self-knowing-account-of-the-way-in-which-one-s/)

[Kenneth Tynan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-tynan/)

> [Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-tynan/show-me-a-congenital-eavesdropper-with-the-instincts-of-a-peeping-tom/)

[Kenneth Tynan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-tynan/)

> [In most writers, style is a welcome, an invitation, a letting down of the drawbridge between the artist and the world. Shaw had no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-tynan/in-most-writers-style-is-a-welcome-an-invitation-a-letting-down-of/)

[Kenneth Tynan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-tynan/)

> [When you've seen all of Ionesco's plays, I felt at the end, you've seen one of them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-tynan/when-you-ve-seen-all-of-ionesco-s-plays-i-felt-at-the-end-you-ve-seen/)

[Kenneth Tynan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-tynan/)

> [I hope I never need to believe in God. It would be an awful confession of failure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-tynan/i-hope-i-never-need-to-believe-in-god-it-would-be-an-awful-confession/)

[Kenneth Tynan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-tynan/)

> [Pornography is writing that seeks primarily, even exclusively, to bring about sexual stimulation. This can be done crudely or delicately. In the former case…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-tynan/pornography-is-writing-that-seeks-primarily-even-exclusively-to-bring/)

[Kenneth Tynan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-tynan/)

> [There, standing at the piano, was the original good time who had been had by all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-tynan/there-standing-at-the-piano-was-the-original-good-time-who-had-been/)

[Kenneth Tynan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-tynan/)

> [Among the classic tastes: bread sauce, Nuits St Georges Les Perdrix 1962, Worcestershire sauce, Toblerone and Bovril.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-tynan/among-the-classic-tastes-bread-sauce-nuits-st-georges-les-perdrix/)

[Kenneth Tynan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-tynan/)

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