#incongruity

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#laughter #mainspring

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

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#achievement #final #incongruity #life #requires

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. ↗

— Emmett Kelly

#everybody #feel #honestly #humor #i

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. ↗

— George Eliot

#coarse #effect #faces #funeral #grating

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#difficulty #everything #grace #hesitation #incongruity