Incongruity Quotes
21 quotes by 20 authors
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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
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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
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Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
— Max Beerbohm
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.
— Stephen Leacock
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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
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The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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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
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Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner.
— Leigh Hunt
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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
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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
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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
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Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
— William Hazlitt
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The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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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
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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
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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: