Kenneth Tynan

Kenneth Peacock Tynan (April 2, 1927 - July 26, 1980), was an influential (and occasionally controversial) British theatre critic and author.

Selected quotes of Kenneth Tynan

• A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
• The greatest films are those which show how society shapes man. The greatest plays are those which show how man shapes society.
• What have I done?more ominously, what am I going to have to do to deserve all this?
• She receives the news that she is about to be ravished on by her husband's corpse with little more than the mild annoyance of one who would have preferred foam rubber.