Nigella Lawson Quotes

There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness.

Gordon Ramsay makes me laugh because he knows that I'm not a chef.

Also, in a funny way, if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas, nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies.

I am determined that my children should have no financial security. It ruins people not having to earn money,

I think we all live in a world that is so fast-paced, it's threatening and absolutely saturated with change and novelty and insecurity. Therefore, the ritual of cooking and feeding my family and friends, whoever drops in, is what makes me feel that I'm in a universe that is contained.

You could probably get through life without knowing how to roast a chicken, but the question is, would you want to?

You cannot truly say you live well unless you eat well.

I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out.

Everyone wants to be young, beautiful and rich. I don't say that scornfully: there are worse things to want to be. But that's why, for example, people don't begrudge Kate Moss how much she earns for a day's work but will fulminate over the take-home pay of some fat, old Water Board exec.

The modern world is personal; people want to know intimate things.

Some people did take the domestic goddess title literally rather than ironically. It was about the pleasures of feeling like one rather than actually being one.

I don't like conflict.

I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.

I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do.

Tension translates to your guests. They'll have a much better time having chili and baked potatoes than they would if you did roast duck with a wild cherry sauce and then had to lie down and cry for a while.

I don't believe you can ever really cook unless you love eating.

I took a fortnight off. But I'm not a great believer in breaks. I don't want to be rattling around inside my own head. I did feel I was spiralling into a Kathy Burke character and tried going out, but I prefer it here. Filming keeps me busy. It absorbs me.

I lurch from chaos to chaos. I can't find my driving licence and my clothes are everywhere - cooking is the neatest thing I do.

I am not a chef. I am not even a trained or professional cook. My qualification is as an eater.

Emotion is messy, contradictory ... and true.

While I am sure there are a number of women who secretly wonder whether they are lesbian, most simply have, somewhere, a fantasy about having sex, in a non-defining, non-exclusive way, with other women.

Cake baking has to be, however innocently, one of the great culinary scams: it implies effort, it implies domestic prowess; but believe me, it's easy.

It sounds like something on a very trite T-shirt, but life is what happens.

(In cooking), there is always room for careful tinkering.

Clean eating necessarily implies that any other form of eating – and consequently the eater of it – is dirty or impure and thus bad, and it's not simply a way of shaming and persecuting others, but leads to that self-shaming and self-persecution that is forcibly detrimental to true healthy eating.

Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see.

'Statistically, people who have been happily married and then widowed tend to remarry.

I'm not much of a drinker. I'm an eater more than a drinker. So I feel that I don't have to wait to get a hangover in order to eat these.

But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it.

I do think awful things may happen at any moment, so while they are not happening, you may as well be pleased.

You need a balance in life between dealing with what's going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over.

I don't believe in low-fat cooking.

On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.

Anyway, what makes people look youthful is the quality of their skin and I don't think you can change that.

In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect.

People who have fabulous childhoods have this sense that nothing is ever going to be that good again. With me, I have the sense that nothing is going to be that bad.

I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.

Good olive oil, good butter, milk - they give food taste and depth and a richness that you cant reproduce with low-fat ingredients.

If I could go into the woods and kill a bear myself, I'd wear it proudly as a trophy.

I think maybe when you live with someone who is really very ill for a long time, it somehow gives you more of a greedy appetite for life and maybe, yes, you are less measured in your behaviour than you would otherwise be.

You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.

I put the kitch into kitchen.

I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy.

I am always surprised when people read double entendres into my innocuous babble.