Oscar Wilde Quotes About Belief

• I can believe anything provided it is quite incredible.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Believe, Imagination

  "The Picture of Dorian Gray".

• Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

  Oscar Wilde

  Attitude, Belief, Shallow

  Oscar Wilde (1947). “The Happy Prince”, p.18, New Line Publishing

• What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define is to limit.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Limits, Belief

• To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Courage

  Quoted in Hesketh Pearson, Oscar Wilde, His Life and Wit (1946)

• Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Fashion, Religious

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.453, Oxford University Press on Demand

• Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.

  Oscar Wilde

  Faithful, Belief

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.70, Prestwick House Inc

• But whether I become a believer or remain an agnostic, my belief or disbelief must derive its source from within, not from without. I, myself, must create its symbols. The transcendental is that which produces its own form. I will never discover its secret if I do not find it in my own heart; if I do not possess it already I shall never be able to acquire it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Heart, Secret, Able

  Oscar Wilde, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Lady Wilde, Henry Zick (1909). “The Complete Writings of Oscar Wilde: What never dies”

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