Quotes of Incompatibility - somelinesforyou

“ Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities, the meeting of extremes round a corner. ”

- Leigh Hunt

“ The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies. ”

- Margaret Atwood

“ Michael Hastings has composed a dirge to incompatibility, which, because it raises expectations only to defeat them, leaves a taste of exhumed ashes. ”

- Richard Corliss

“ There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency. ”

- Jonathan Swift

“ Inconsistencies cannot both be right; but, imputed to man, they may both be true. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter. ”

- Max Beerbohm

“ No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies. ”

- Edward Bulwer Lytton

“ Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle. ”

- Thomas Hardy

“ Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent. ”

- Horatio Smith

“ There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity. ”

- Mario Vargas Llosa

“ Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union. ”

- Cyril Connolly

“ A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs. ”

- Coco Chanel

“ Incompatibility: In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility. ”

- Leo Tolstoy
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