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Quotes About Incongruity

I put hardwood floors on top of wall-to-wall carpet.
~ Steven Wright
My waist is a 30. The jeans are a 28. When I fart, the Reeboks blow off.
~ Steve Kluger
In a society... so madly in love with oxymoron's... ask yourself this... ...when was the last time you ever bought anything for free?
~ Non Nomen, The Unwords
is probable that, like the illustrious author of the drama, all were unconscious of any incongruity between their sentiments and actions.
~ Edith Wharton
And he himself one vile antithesis.
~ Alexander Pope
A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
~ Alexander Pope
Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean?
~ Jason Schwartzman
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
It was like smiling at a gargoyle.
~ Rhys Bowen
But alpacas don't lay eggs!
~ Rich Horton
He looked like a Yanni fan at an Iron Maiden Concert.
~ Kelley Armstrong
A bureaucrat is an official who is clothed with power and whom it doesn't fit.
~ Evan Esar
He was an old sock and she was a glass slipper
~ William Parsons
It's a match made in heaven...by a retarded angel.
~ Woody Allen
Bringing Marcus to Findlay would be like bringing a bazooka to a Tupperware party.
~ David Rosenfelt
In many ways, the title American is an oxymoron because one may look it on the outside but not feel it on the inside.
~ Ciore Taylor
Military intelligence is a meaningless phrase because the two words are mutually exclusive.
~ Lucille Kallen
Military intelligence, two words combined that cant make sense
~ Dave Mustaine
I always seem to get parts where I play the sports professional - and that's not me at all!
~ Jay Ryan
Major Rutledge of the Buffs, Eton and Sandhurst as to intonation, millimetrically tooth-brushed as to moustache, Savile Row as to the quite dazzling sartorial perfection of his khaki drill, was so magnificently out of place in the wild beauty of the rocky, tree-lined bluffs of that winding creek that his presence there seemed inevitable.
~ Alistair MacLean
I find it frustrating when people wear belts with braces. That's an interesting one.
~ Olly Murs
Me carrying a briefcase is like a hotdog wearing earrings.
~ Sparky Anderson
A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.
~ Friedrich Schiller
Life can't die. It's a contradiction.
~ Ruby Dee