Quotes from Nigella Lawson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I don't believe in low-fat cooking.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.