108 Quotes by Nigella Lawson

It s easier to impress someone than to give them pleasure.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

Some people did take the domestic goddess title literally rather than ironically. It was about the pleasures of feeling like one rather than actually being one.