Nigella Lawson Quotes

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

In England and America people tend to graze all day long, but I think it's such a waste to be constantly picking at food because you then can't enjoy a proper full meal when the time comes.

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

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

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

I know the crew so well, so I forget I'm being filmed. It's like cooking with a friend in the kitchen - you're talking, as you do, and maybe you're telling her about this wonderful way to prepare lamb chops - it's more natural, more honest.

I don't like conflict.

I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside.

I am not sure about facelifts because I wouldn't want to be someone who just looks like she's had a facelift.

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

And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.

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.

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

I don't believe in low-fat cooking.

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

Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true.

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

I'm not someone who's endlessly patient and wonderful.

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

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.

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

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.

Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on.

At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.