Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
Quotes about incongruity (8 Quotes)
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 breaking the solemn silence of night.
What appealed to me was that here was this man who, on the one hand, liked to sing and entertain in local pubs, but who was also the most proficient killing machine of the last century. I was drawn to the incongruity of it.
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
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.
Nature abhors a vacuity Especially in perpetuity She finds her felicity In asymmetricity And notices no incongruity.
Blessed is He in Whose hand is the kingdom, and He has power over all things, Who created death and life that He may try you-- which of you is best in deeds and He is the Mighty, the Forgiving, Who created the seven heavens one above another you see no incongruity in the creation of the Beneficent God then look again, can you see any disorder Then turn back the eye again and again your look shall ' come back to you confused while it is fatigued.