Kenneth Tynan Quotes

The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

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

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

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.

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

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

Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human experience to explain mankind to itself; both attempt, in very different ways, to assemble coherence from seemingly unrelated phenomena; both stand guard for us against chaos.

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