"Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter." — Max Beerbohm

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This quote is filed under Incongruity Quotes, one of 21 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the… — Robert Louis Stevenson
• Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist; on a significant bases of reality,… — August Strindberg
• People will not follow a leader with moral incongruities for long. Every time you compromise character you compromise leadership. The… — Bill Hybels
• To get any reason out of the mass of incongruity we call human life, we have to transcend our reason,… — Swami Vivekananda
• The intimate relation between humor and faith is derived from the fact that both deal with the incongruities of our… — Reinhold Niebuhr
• This is America, This vast, confused beauty, This staring, restless speed of loveliness, Mighty, overwhelming, crude, of all forms, Making… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Herbert Spencer

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