Quotes about Incongruity

The cause of laughter in every case is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real objects which have been thought through it in some relation, and laughter itself is just the expression of this incongruity.... All laughter then is occasioned by a paradox.... This, briefly stated, is the true explanation of the ludicrous.

She had never done these things before; she did them expertly. She had a capacity for action, a competence that clashed incongruously with her appearance.

The problem with this world is that it doesn't fit. It

But logic ignores the more-or-less as absolutely as the sun ignores the candlelight.

Faith is the final triumph over incongruity the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence.

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

The minuteness of the human race within the vastness of the universe is not an incongruity because the vastness of the universe is not about the greatness of man but about the greatness of God. Man has his greatness, but it lies in his capacity to know and worship the God who calls the universe "the work of [his] fingers" (Ps. 8:3).

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of everything.

I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

He's not a Republican, he's a Republican't.

Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.