People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more…

I seemed to be leading a very incongruous life from the point of view of the definition of the community I was in.

— Frederick Lenz

It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and, for all that, yield a plausible harmony.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Comedy is the kindly contemplation of the incongruous.

— P. G. Wodehouse

Destiny has a constant passion for the incongruous.

— Booth Tarkington

People want incongruous, impossible things.

— Kristin Cashore

The beautiful must be incongruous.

— Julien Torma

That author who draws a character, even though to common view incongruous in its parts, as the flying-squirrel, and, at differentperiods, as much at…

— Herman Melville

“What makes the prospect of death distinctive in the modern age is the background of permanent technological and sociological revolution against which it is…

— Alain de Botton

Thanks to the Polgars the adjective 'men's' before events and the 'affirmative action' women's titles such as Woman Grandmaster have become anachronisms.

— Garry Kasparov

“Someday when we get around to writing a genealogy of our failures, inadequacies, and disappointments, an important place in such a study will be…

— Boris Gunjević

September 11 was a day of de-Enlightenment. Politics stood revealed as a veritable Walpurgis Night of the irrational. And such old, old stuff. The…

— Martin Amis

“The universe has a habit of deleting anachronisms.”

— Anonymous

Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms

— Jorge Luis Borges

The energy that actually shapes the world springs from emotions - racial pride, leader-worship, religious belief, love of war - which liberal intellectuals mechanically…

— George Orwell

“Don't you think you would attract attention?' said the Medical Man. 'Our ancestors had no great tolerance for anachronisms.”

— H.G.Wells