60 Quotes by 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 failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope.

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.

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

Dichotomy = operation performed on lesbians to make them normal.

Pornography is writing that seeks primarily, even exclusively, to bring about sexual stimulation. This can be done crudely or delicately. In the former case it would be bad literature; in the latter good.

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself

Drama criticism ... is a self-knowing account of the way in which one's consciousness has been modified during an evening at the theatre.

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.

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