Incongruous Quotes

42 quotes by 38 authors

I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens. — Robert Louis Stevenson
The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
...the question undoubtedly is, or soon will be, not whether or no we shall employ notation in chemistry, but whether we shall use a bad… — William Whewell
It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer… — Edward Hoagland
Against the background of this luminous and sparkling stage Bond stood in the sunshine and felt his mission to be incongruous and remote and his… — Ian Fleming
I have wanted . . . to commit a murder myself. I recognized this as the desire of the artist to express himself! . .… — Agatha Christie
This thing is but a puny imitation of a much grander system whose laws you know, and I am not able to convince you that… — Isaac Newton
In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of… — Jerome Bruner
Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist… — E. M. Forster
A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that,… — James Payn
The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A… — Jesse Owens
The beautiful must be incongruous. — Julien Torma
The entire Jesus concept, that human sacrifice should be the substratum of a moral religion of love, strikes me as incongruous. God condemned us and… — Trevor Treharne
With such global events looming over us like mountains, nay, like entire mountain ranges, it may seem incongruous and inappropriate to recall that the primary… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to… — John Dos Passos
Comedy is the kindly contemplation of the incongruous. — P.G. Wodehouse
To the extent that we honor all aspects of ourselves, we remove revulsion, self-hate, horror, and terror from our lives. As whole human beings we… — Theodore Isaac Rubin
What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man? — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reverence is a good thing, and part of its value is that the more we revere a man, the more sharply are we struck by… — Max Beerbohm
The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste. — Susan Sontag

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