Kenneth Tynan

As times change, you want to really revere your heredity, but you don't want to be a shrine.. to light candles and…

— Kenneth Tynan

Western man, especially the Western critic, still find it very had to go into print and say: "I recommend you to go…

— Kenneth Tynan

Does the critic wish to influence the kind of film that costs more than £250,000? It is as if he were to…

— Kenneth Tynan

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

— Kenneth Tynan

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

— Kenneth Tynan

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

— 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

William Congreve is the only sophisticated playwright England has produced; and like Shaw, Sheridan, and Wilde, his nearest rivals, he was brought…

— 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

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

— Kenneth Tynan

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

— 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

All writing is an antisocial act, since the writer is a man who can speak freely only when alone; to be himself…

— Kenneth Tynan

I just stopped playing bitches on wheels and peoples' mothers. I have only a few more years to kick up my heels!

— Kenneth Tynan

The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these…

— Kenneth Tynan

The unique thing about Margaret Rutherford is that she can act with her chin alone. Among its many moods I especially cherish…

— Kenneth Tynan

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

— Kenneth Tynan

I do not see the E.E.C. [European Economic Community] as a great love affair. It's more like nine middle aged couples with…

— Kenneth Tynan

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

— Kenneth Tynan

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

— Kenneth Tynan

How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point…

— Kenneth Tynan

The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional.

— Kenneth Tynan

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

— Kenneth Tynan

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need…

— Kenneth Tynan

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

— Kenneth Tynan