Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
People want incongruous, impossible things.
The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.
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.
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean.
Christianity would be helpless without the idea of free will and the idea of free will would be helpless without incongruity.
I had known there had been a serial killer on Mount Tamalpais, and it felt so incongruous in such a beautiful, peaceful spot.
Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.
People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous than that? It makes me want to laugh." [ ]
... a constant repetition and a boundless incongruity of useless but indestructible objects.
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 more conventional stimuli.
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.
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.
Body and soul can never be married I need to become who I already am and will bellow forever at this incongruity which has committed me to hell
One question about a joke is, how well is the strangeness of the situation resolved? At 'The New Yorker', we retain a lot of incongruity, tapping the playful part of the mind - Monty Python-type stuff. We also try to use humor as a vehicle for commun...
I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.
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, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions.
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 express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief.
