Oscar Wilde Quotes About Religion

• I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

  Oscar Wilde

  Friendship, Best Friend, Real Friends

• Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Cat

• People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fashion, People, Understanding

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.109, Wordsworth Editions

• Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

  Oscar Wilde

  Faith, Atheist, Religion

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Epigrams”, p.99, BoD – Books on Demand

• When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Success, Death

  An Ideal Husband act 2 (1895) See Goethe 15; T. H. Huxley 4; Modern Proverbs 14; George Bernard Shaw 16; Wilde 56

• Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

  Oscar Wilde

  Believe, Men, Religion

  Epigrams: Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young Sebastian Melmoth

• In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.

  Oscar Wilde

  Religion, Serious, Temples

• 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

• The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.

  Oscar Wilde

  Garden, Religion, Stories

• Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

  Oscar Wilde

  Thinking, Personality, Religion

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.168, First Avenue Editions

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