Top 66 quotes by Nigella Lawson

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

Nigella Lawson (2017). “Eating: Vintage Minis”, p.16, Random House

Want , Knowing , Food

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

Inspirational , Teenage , Teens

Sometimes...we don't want to feel like a postmodern, postfeminist, overstretched woman but, rather, a domestic goddess, trailing nutmeggy fumes of baking pie in our languorous wake.
Nigella Lawson

Want , Food , Pie

You cannot truly say you live well unless you eat well.
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Inspirational , Wells , Live Well

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

Sometimes , Spread , Cheese

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

Thinking , Food , Cooking

I was brought up an atheist and have always remained so. But at no time was I led to believe that morality was unimportant or that good and bad did not exist. I believe passionately in the need to distinguish between right and wrong and am somewhat confounded by being told I need God, Jesus or a clergyman to help me to do so.
Nigella Lawson

Believe , Jesus , Atheist

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

"You Ask The Questions". The Independent, September 12, 2002.

People , Double Entendre

But I do think that women who spend all their lives on a diet probably have a miserable sex life: if your body is the enemy, how can you relax and take pleasure? Everything is about control, rather than relaxing, about holding everything in.
Nigella Lawson

"The big issue" by Shane Watson, The Times, December 02, 2007.

Thinking , Enemy , Sex

I don't believe in low-fat cooking.
Nigella Lawson

Believe , Literature , Cooking

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

Wine , Literature , Taste

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

"Eating: Vintage Minis". Book by Nigella Lawson, 2017.

Believe , Eating , Cooks

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

Elements , Literature , Cooking

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.
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Nigella Lawson (2012). “How To Be A Domestic Goddess”, p.20, Random House

Believe , Food , Cake