Quotes About Incongruity

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

In the Catalina crowd he stood out like a garbage man at a wedding.

There was absolutely no consistency to the experience.

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.

I've got Democratic skin, but a Republican pocket.

The image was like finding an automobile factory in your closet.

The beautiful must be incongruous.

The best jokes are uncalled-for.

Ironic things are interesting.

Life is full of ironies and absurdities.

I'm not into cartoons. That's the irony of it.

There are elements of irony in my work, of course.

I love irony.

my favorite Congressional incongruity: ...Red State legislators galumphing from meeting to meeting in full pancake makeup. Estee Lauder may well make more money on Capitol Hill than in Beverly Hills.

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

Brandon: How does the character fit into the story, how will people expect them to fit into the story, and how, therefore, can I make them incongruous for those expectations? I'm looking for incongruity. Ask yourself why this character cannot fill the role in the plot that they are expected to fulfill. Ask yourself who would be perfect for this role. I'm not going to use that person.

I mixed with ordinary people about the same way that a bucket of paint mixed with a bag of gerbils.

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.

I'm not sure I like the idea of polar bears under a palm tree.

Mockingbird sometimes found it hard to believe this was the same man she'd married; he looked like a different person now—as if someone had put a fire hose up his ass and inflated him with meringue.

How could something so wrong grow out of something that had started out so right?

Vimes stalked gloomily through the crowded streets, feeling like the only pickled onion in a fruit salad.

Wrong as a squirrel with feathers, or a wolf with wooden teeth; not injustice, not unfairness—just a wrongness that, under the sky, could not exist.

You don't usually find an island in a New York kitchen.