Laurence Fishburne Quotes

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

'Othello' was my first Shakespearean discovery. I was obsessed with drama at school, and I studied the play for my English GCSE. Desdemona is the part that everyone wants, but Iago's wife Emilia is the one I've always been drawn to.

It is not wise to trust a man with a deceitful speech ... for he will definitely manipulate your sayings and give a different meaning to your saying and decisions, for he would not care to keep the truth intact

It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.

I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello.

Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.

'Othello' is the most domestic of Shakespeare's tragedies and the one that's likely to strike a personal note with a lot of people watching it.

One to mislead the public, another to mislead the Cabinet, and the third to mislead itself.

I saw 'Othello' with Christopher Plummer and James Earl Jones.

What's a better foundation for drama? You have power, you have ambition, you have sex... that's the stuff of drama.

Beware the viper in your closet. Isn’t that another thing you’re always saying, Father? Ambition and jealousy are at the heart of all betrayals. (Ryssa)

Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.

Look to her, Moor, if thou has eyes to see. She has deceived her father, and may thee.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.

My opinion is that he's a swindler and you're a sucker.

I like being innocent, but know now when I am being taken for a ride.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

Well, you can't trust most people in this game, period; it can be a very shady business.

Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

Who would not rather trust and be deceived?

I don't think he cheated on me. During the marriage, I think he was there.