Constant Quote by Booth Tarkington

The beautiful must be incongruous.

— Julien Torma

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

People want incongruous, impossible things.

— Kristin Cashore

“People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous than that? It makes me want to laugh." [ Afterword ]”

— Michael Chabon

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

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

To speak only well of Jacques Ranciere is not an easy task, given the positions that the two of us occupy. Perhaps my constant…

— Jacques Ranciere

As I grow through love, so grows my joy, ever more present, ever more constant.

— M. Scott Peck

The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing…

— Carl von Clausewitz

The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that force is…

— Michael Ignatieff

Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and…

— Vera Nazarian