Oscar Wilde on Love
I might mimic a passion that I do not feel, but I cannot mimic one that burns one like fire.
There are romantic memories, and there is the desire for romance-that is all. Our most fiery moments of ecstasy are merely shadows of what somewhere else we have felt, or of what we long someday to feel.
Nothing is serious except passion. The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.
To love oneself in the start of a lifelong romance.
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
The very essence of romance in uncertainty.
Oscar Wilde on Religion
Religions . . . may be absorbed, but they are never disproved.
Pray must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.
Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.
Skepticism is the beginning of Faith.
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