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The vengeful hag is played by Ingrid Bergman, which is like casting Eleanor Roosevelt as Lizzie Borden.
— Kenneth Tynan
Drawbacks are good when you are on holiday. If the holiday were too good you might not want to go home again ...
— Katharine Tynan
It is a horrible demoralizing thing to be a lawyer. You look for such low motives in everyone and everything.
— Katharine Tynan
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
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
I have always believed that hair is a very sure index of character.
— Katharine Tynan
Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.
— Kenneth Tynan
Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist.
— Kenneth Tynan
When you've seen all of Ionesco's plays, I felt at the end, you've seen one of them.
— Kenneth Tynan
Often our bad moments are self-propelled ... And the drama is almost exclusively within our heads and hearts.
— Katharine Tynan
Women are impossible, witches are worse, and women who are powerful witches are going to be the death of me.
— Cate Tiernan
The Irish always jest even though they jest with tears.
— Katharine Tynan
A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.
— Kenneth Tynan
That's quite the specific search ... 'Sadistic Old-Bag-Murdering Witches' - I can't even begin to imagine what that involves.
— Stacey T. Hunt
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
Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.
— Kenneth Tynan
I have often heard it said that the Irish are too ready to forgive. It is a noble failing.
— Katharine Tynan
Dichotomy = operation performed on lesbians to make them normal.
— Kenneth Tynan
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
Irish people have a trick of over-statement, at which one ceases to wince as one grows older.
— Katharine 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 city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.
— Kenneth Tynan
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
Among the classic tastes: bread sauce, Nuits St Georges Les Perdrix 1962, Worcestershire sauce, Toblerone and Bovril.
— Kenneth Tynan
The greatest films are those which show how society shapes man. The greatest plays are those which show how man shapes society.
— Kenneth Tynan
The kind need kindness most of all.
— Katharine Tynan
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
Religion dies hard in the Irish.
— Katharine Tynan
The trouble with the Irish question always has been that it was an English question.
— Katharine Tynan
It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness.
— Kenneth Tynan
A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.
— Kenneth Tynan
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
Everyone is vulnerable who is at once gifted and gregarious.
— Kenneth Tynan
January has only one thing to be said for it: it is followed by February. Nothing so well becomes its passing.
— Katharine 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
A villain who shares one's guilt is inevitably more attractive than a hero convinced of one's innocence.
— Kenneth Tynan
To be a saint does not exclude fine dresses nor a beautiful house.
— Katharine Tynan