Nigella Lawson Quotes

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.

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

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

There is a vast difference between how things seem from the outside and how they feel on the inside.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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’m not someone who’s endlessly patient and wonderful.

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 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.

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

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

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.