Quotes of Kenneth Tynan - somelinesforyou

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

- Kenneth Tynan

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

- Kenneth Tynan

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

- 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

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

- 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 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. ”

- 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

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

- Kenneth Tynan

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

- Kenneth Tynan

“ Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art. ”

- 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

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

- Kenneth Tynan

“ 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. ”

- 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 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. ”

- Kenneth Tynan

“ Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art. ”

- 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 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. ”

- Kenneth Tynan

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

- Kenneth Tynan

“ Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art. ”

- Kenneth Tynan

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

- 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 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. ”

- Kenneth Tynan

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

- Kenneth Tynan

“ 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

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

- Kenneth Tynan

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

- Kenneth Tynan

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

- Kenneth Tynan

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

- 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

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

- Kenneth Tynan

“ The unique thing about Margaret Rutherford is that she can act with her chin alone. Among its many moods I especially cherish the chin commanding, the chin in doubt, and the chin at bay. ”

- Kenneth Tynan

“ 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
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