Kenneth Tynan

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

— Kenneth Tynan

#inspirational

A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past. ↗

— Kenneth Tynan

#city #i #i am #immediacy #living

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. ↗

— Kenneth Tynan

#critic #drama #good #good drama #great

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

— Kenneth Tynan

#know #neurosis #secret #you

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

— Kenneth Tynan

#moves #novel #past #play #static

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

— Kenneth Tynan

#critic #drive #knows #man #way

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

— Kenneth Tynan

#content #fist #further #goes #hand

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

— Kenneth Tynan

#hollywood #oysters #pearl

The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic. ↗

— Kenneth Tynan

#became #complexity #critic #effort #had

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

— Kenneth Tynan

#garbo #other #sees #sober #women