Top 71 Quotes About Tynan
#1. Drawbacks are good when you are on holiday. If the holiday were too good you might not want to go home again ...
Katharine Tynan
#2. 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
#3. I hope I never need to believe in God. It would be an awful confession of failure.
Kenneth Tynan
#4. Does the critic wish to influence the kind of film that costs more than £250,000? It is as if he were to send a postcard to General Motors explaining that he would like them to make a raft next year, or a helicopter, instead of a car.
Kenneth Tynan
#5. A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.
Kenneth Tynan
#6. Assuming that everything is your fault is a shortcut for finding those areas where you have control, and opening the door to exerting that control for positive change.
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#7. Write a prescribed amount every day. I find it easiest to assign myself to write a single blog post every day,
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#8. The only other white people we saw during the three days we stayed there were a German couple intent on taking pictures of their stuffed sheep in a variety of locations around the world.
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#9. We shall be judged by what we do, not by how we felt while we were doing it.
Kenneth Tynan
#10. people we think of as exceptional aren't that way because of who they are, but because of what they do. In
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#11. A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
Kenneth Tynan
#12. Women are impossible, witches are worse, and women who are powerful witches are going to be the death of me.
Cate Tiernan
#13. When you've seen all of Ionesco's plays, I felt at the end, you've seen one of them.
Kenneth Tynan
#14. A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.
Kenneth Tynan
#15. I have always believed that hair is a very sure index of character.
Katharine Tynan
#16. 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
#17. O, the red rose may be fair, And the lily statelier; But my shamrock, one in three Takes the very heart of me!
Katharine Tynan
#18. No matter what we think of ourselves, our baby looks at us like we're the most glorious being that walked the earth. Who else looks at you like that? Who's feeding who here?' SELF-REFLECTION
Jacinta Tynan
#19. What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.
Kenneth Tynan
#20. Coming to New York from the muted mistiness of London, as I regularly do, is like travelling from a monochrome antique shop to a technicolor bazaar.
Kenneth Tynan
#21. 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
#22. Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.
Kenneth Tynan
#23. It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness.
Kenneth Tynan
#24. I have often heard it said that the Irish are too ready to forgive. It is a noble failing.
Katharine Tynan
#25. The trouble with the Irish question always has been that it was an English question.
Katharine Tynan
#26. When a society has doubts about its future, it tends to produce spokesmen whose main appeal is to the emotions, who argue from intuitions, and whose claim to be truth-bearers rests solely on intense personal feeling.
Kenneth Tynan
#27. You can do just about anything if you break it down into habits and execute on them. That's not to say that it's easy, only that it's possible. The key is to be honest about what's stopping you from success, take responsibility for it, and create new habits to correct.
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#28. Irish people have a trick of over-statement, at which one ceases to wince as one grows older.
Katharine Tynan
#29. Often our bad moments are self-propelled ... And the drama is almost exclusively within our heads and hearts.
Katharine Tynan
#30. To be a saint does not exclude fine dresses nor a beautiful house.
Katharine Tynan
#31. Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist.
Kenneth Tynan
#32. Western man, especially the Western critic, still find it very had to go into print and say: "I recommend you to go and see this because it gave me an erection."
Kenneth Tynan
#33. Drama criticism ... is a self-knowing account of the way in which one's consciousness has been modified during an evening at the theatre.
Kenneth Tynan
#34. If there's one thing I can't bear, it's people who are wise during the event.
Kenneth Tynan
#35. 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
#36. The vengeful hag is played by Ingrid Bergman, which is like casting Eleanor Roosevelt as Lizzie Borden.
Kenneth Tynan
#37. The greatest films are those which show how society shapes man. The greatest plays are those which show how man shapes society.
Kenneth Tynan
#40. That's quite the specific search ... 'Sadistic Old-Bag-Murdering Witches' - I can't even begin to imagine what that involves.
Stacey T. Hunt
#41. All of life is more or less what the French would call s'imposer, to be able to create one's own terms for what one does.
Kenneth Tynan
#42. It's a strange thing now how people will know they're dying themselves when no one else could suspect anything wrong at all with them.
Katharine Tynan
#43. There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence delightful.
Katharine Tynan
#44. Any country that has sexual censorship will eventually have political censorship.
Kenneth Tynan
#45. A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.
Kenneth Tynan
#46. Everyone is vulnerable who is at once gifted and gregarious.
Kenneth Tynan
#47. Our brains are designed for efficiency, which sometimes expresses itself as laziness.
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#48. 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
#49. 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.
Kenneth Tynan
#50. I doubt if I could love anyone who did not wish to see Look Back in Anger.
Kenneth Tynan
#51. Among the classic tastes: bread sauce, Nuits St Georges Les Perdrix 1962, Worcestershire sauce, Toblerone and Bovril.
Kenneth Tynan
#52. 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
#53. The Irish always jest even though they jest with tears.
Katharine Tynan
#54. Hope is at the bottom of the Pandora's box of Irish troubles, and I believe proudly and firmly in the ultimate destinies of my country.
Katharine Tynan
#55. Mistakes will happen, but the most important thing is how you react to them.
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#56. A villain who shares one's guilt is inevitably more attractive than a hero convinced of one's innocence.
Kenneth Tynan
#57. A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
Kenneth Tynan
#58. There, standing at the piano, was the original good time who had been had by all.
Kenneth Tynan
#59. New habits are things that you do, but old habits are things that you are.
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#60. Dichotomy = operation performed on lesbians to make them normal.
Kenneth Tynan
#61. How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption? Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself.
Kenneth Tynan
#62. The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.
Kenneth Tynan
#63. All writing is an antisocial act, since the writer is a man who can speak freely only when alone; to be himself he must lock himself up, to communicate he must cut himself off from all communication; and in this there is something always a little mad.
Kenneth Tynan
#64. The man who reacts to the universe with a cry of impotent anguish is acceptable as an artist only if he can persuade us that he has sanely considered the other possible reactions and found them inadequate.
Kenneth Tynan
#65. Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.
Kenneth Tynan
#66. The life in which nothing happens goes the fastest, because it has no landmarks.
Katharine Tynan
#67. It is a horrible demoralizing thing to be a lawyer. You look for such low motives in everyone and everything.
Katharine Tynan
#68. 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
#69. 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.
Kenneth Tynan
#70. January has only one thing to be said for it: it is followed by February. Nothing so well becomes its passing.
Katharine Tynan
#71. 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
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