Everyone is vulnerable who is at once gifted and gregarious. Kenneth Tynan More Quotes by Kenneth Tynan More Quotes From Kenneth Tynan Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clenches his fist. Kenneth Tynan performingfistshands William Congreve is the only sophisticated playwright England has produced; and like Shaw, Sheridan, and Wilde, his nearest rivals, he was brought up in Ireland. Kenneth Tynan rivalssophisticatedengland Any country that has sexual censorship will eventually have political censorship. Kenneth Tynan censorshippoliticalcountry I doubt if I could love anyone who did not wish to see Look Back in Anger. Kenneth Tynan doubtwishlooks Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself Kenneth Tynan art-isartistart There, standing at the piano, was the original good time who had been had by all. Kenneth Tynan pianogood-timesfear A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one. Kenneth Tynan dramapastmoving If there's one thing I can't bear, it's people who are wise during the event. Kenneth Tynan wisdomwisepeople A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself. Kenneth Tynan citiesplayart Dichotomy = operation performed on lesbians to make them normal. Kenneth Tynan dichotomyoperationsnormal What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober. Kenneth Tynan womenloveart Among the classic tastes: bread sauce, Nuits St Georges Les Perdrix 1962, Worcestershire sauce, Toblerone and Bovril. Kenneth Tynan saucetastefood 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 failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. Kenneth Tynan couplehometravel The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Kenneth Tynan parts-of-the-bodybuttocksbody The vengeful hag is played by Ingrid Bergman, which is like casting Eleanor Roosevelt as Lizzie Borden. Kenneth Tynan bergmancastingvengeful In most writers, style is a welcome, an invitation, a letting down of the drawbridge between the artist and the world. Shaw had no time for such ruses. Unlike most of his countrymen, he abominated charm, which he regarded as evidence of chronic temperamental weakness. Kenneth Tynan styleweaknessartist 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 connectionstheatreworld 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 one-wordlastshatred A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past. Kenneth Tynan immediacycitiespast I hope I never need to believe in God. It would be an awful confession of failure. Kenneth Tynan would-bebelieveneeds
