Incongruity Quotes

21 quotes by 20 authors

It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist; on a significant bases of reality, the imagination spins, weaving new… — August Strindberg
Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter. — Max Beerbohm
People will not follow a leader with moral incongruities for long. Every time you compromise character you compromise leadership. The foundation of firm leadership is… — Bill Hybels
To get any reason out of the mass of incongruity we call human life, we have to transcend our reason, but we must do it… — Swami Vivekananda
The intimate relation between humor and faith is derived from the fact that both deal with the incongruities of our existence. Laughter is our reaction… — Reinhold Niebuhr
This is America, This vast, confused beauty, This staring, restless speed of loveliness, Mighty, overwhelming, crude, of all forms, Making grandeur out of profusion, Afraid… — Amy Lowell
Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof. — Stephen Leacock
It is only when you realize that you are mortal and yet immortal simultaneously that you begin to realize that the beautiful incongruities of existence… — Frederick Lenz
The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project. — Arthur Schopenhauer
To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of… — Mark Twain
Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner. — Leigh Hunt
It becomes possible to admit that plainness may coexist with nobility of nature, and fine features with baseness; and yet to hold that mental and… — Herbert Spencer
But whatever you do, take neither yourselves nor your fellow-creatures too seriously. There is tragedy enough in our daily routine, but there is room too… — William Osler
Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice… — George Eliot
Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity. — William Hazlitt
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it. — Reinhold Niebuhr
I have always felt that the action most worth watching is not at the center of things but where edges meet. I like shorelines, weather… — Anne Fadiman
The Last Supper is supposed to be thirteen men. Who is this woman? "Everyone misses it, our preconceived notions of this scene are so powerful… — Dan Brown
Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don't know. — Emmett Kelly

Who Wrote These Incongruity Quotes

20 authors contributed a total of 21 Incongruity Quotes as follows: