Quotes About Incongruity

Standing just behind them, pretending to be a part of their group and yet so obviously not, was a shape that did not belong.

Shanksing across that country you stick out like a rat on a birthday cake.

We live amidst absurdity, so close to it that it escapes our notice.

Do you know if a kangaroo can jump higher than a house? Of course it does, a house does not jump at all. 2.

Most people do not act consistently.

Ah, the Gilligan's Island conundrum: why were the Howells on a crappy three-hour excursion cruise in the first place, when they could've been on their diamond-encrusted yacht? And why did they bring so many clothes?" -Riley

The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.

She looked down and saw Genji on his warhorse, and it was he who was out of place, not herself. The incongruity of a samurai in her orchard made her laugh. Her own laughter brought her back. Coming back, she began to weep. "My home was in Apple Valley," Emily said. "Another Apple Valley." After a time, Genji said, "This place was yours before you ever saw it.

You need that guy like a giraffe needs a strep throat.

Sometimes love can be so wrong/Like a fat man in a thong.

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

but gets to be in the Pantheon anyway and sit on Olympus with the Gods, as if you went to the Supreme Court and found Bozo the Clown planted among the justices.

He looked as incongruous as a rose in a bowl of brussels sprouts.

You can't pour a pint of bitter into a cocktail glass.

She felt something inside her turn to stone and fall down into her gut, where it lay cold and hard and uncomfortable. Which was impossible, of course. Human organs did not turn to stone and certainly could not shift into the stomach.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously three old owls on a chest of drawers were screwing the daughter of the doctor. But then the mother called them, colorless green ideas slepp furiously.

To his dismay, it sounded as out of place in this somber laboratory as the book looked out of place, and he found himself rushing to keep ahead of his growing mortification, which only made it sound wilder and more foolish the faster he went. "You

The missing stairs baffled Clary. What did vampires have against stairs? -Clary, pg.266-

Well, I have five brothers—Rest, Thankful, Watching, Patience, Consider—and each one of them the very opposite of their name.

The Curse has a thing for contrast: frivolity one minute, homicide the next.

I'm uncomfortable doing commercials.

There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.

Noses run. Feet smell.

The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.