Nigella Lawson Quotes

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

— Nigella Lawson

Sometimes it's good just to be seduced by the particular cheeses spread out in front of you on a cheese counter.

— Nigella Lawson

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

— Nigella Lawson

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.

— Nigella Lawson

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

— Nigella Lawson

“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.”

— Nigella Lawson

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

— Nigella Lawson

Emotion is messy, contradictory ... and true.

— Nigella Lawson

“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.”

— Nigella Lawson

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

— Nigella Lawson

“I don't believe in low-fat cooking.”

— Nigella Lawson

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

— Nigella Lawson

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

— Nigella Lawson

“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.”

— Nigella Lawson

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

— Nigella Lawson

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

— Nigella Lawson

“There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity.”

— Nigella Lawson

“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.”

— Nigella Lawson

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

— Nigella Lawson

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

— Nigella Lawson

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

— Nigella Lawson

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

— Nigella Lawson

“I don't like conflict.”

— Nigella Lawson

“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.”

— Nigella Lawson

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.

— Nigella Lawson

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

— Nigella Lawson

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.

— Nigella Lawson

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

— Nigella Lawson

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

— Nigella Lawson

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

— Nigella Lawson

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

— Nigella Lawson

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

— Nigella Lawson

“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.”

— Nigella Lawson

Glamour really has to do with good lighting, doesn't it?

— Nigella Lawson

“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.”

— Nigella Lawson

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

— Nigella Lawson

“I think sometimes that people assume because I'm on television I'm an expert, but I think the whole point of what I do is that I'm not and I don't have any training. My approach isn't about a fancy ingredient or style. I cook what I love to eat.”

— Nigella Lawson

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

— Nigella Lawson

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.

— Nigella Lawson

“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.”

— Nigella Lawson

“I was shy as a child. Now I'm not really shy any more, unless I'm with shy people. I find it contagious and I don't know what to say. But I don't think shyness is something one should feel apologetic about.”

— Nigella Lawson

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.

— Nigella Lawson

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

— Nigella Lawson

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

— Nigella Lawson

“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.”

— Nigella Lawson

“I don't wear anything in bed. But I'm not ready for a nude scene quite yet.”

— Nigella Lawson

“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.”

— Nigella Lawson

“I used to refer to myself as Typhoid Mary. It wasn't that I was jinxed, I just seemed to bring ill fortune to anybody I was close to.”

— Nigella Lawson

The thing I liked about writing about food when I started it was that I felt I was writing about food in a different way. Not like a food writer.

— Nigella Lawson

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

— Nigella Lawson