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Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human…

— Kenneth Tynan

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

— 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…

— Kenneth Tynan

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

— Kenneth Tynan

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

— Kenneth Tynan

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

— Kenneth Tynan

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

— 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

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

— 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…

— Kenneth Tynan

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

— Kenneth Tynan

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

— 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…

— Kenneth Tynan

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

— Kenneth Tynan

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

— Kenneth Tynan