Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke famous quotes

That what is agreed to be done, must be considered as done.
-- Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke

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A reasonable fine is such as the law will judge to be so . . . but what a reasonable fine is, and who shall be the judge of it, the law has established no rule.
-- Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke

#Law #Judging #Reason

Certainty is the mother of repose, and therefore the common law aims at certainty.
-- Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke

#Mother #Law #Common

Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.

I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.

A busybody's work is never done.

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.

But it's true, when you see some television, you carry it with you. It's like 90210. Tell me what young shows were being done then... We were thrilled about the ratings around the world.

I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.

I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.

Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.

Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

The single most powerful element of youth is that you don't have the life experiences to know what can't be done.