Nigella Lawson Quotes

I can't promise to love someone for ever. I can't imagine anyone could promise to love me for ever. I mean, it sounds like a lovely day, but I go to red carpet events all the time and I'm the centre of attention so it's not like I'm looking for that!

When I married Munna, people didn't give our marriage even two months to survive. But we lasted for 12 years. The first 10 were magical. He's a fair man, a wise man.

I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair.

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.

The ever clearer consciousness that love can dispense with marriage, yet marriage cannot dispense with love, is already partially recognized by modern society, by the facility of divorce.

I love being married more than anyone. It's what I always wanted. I found the person who's perfect for me, and we have a great time and a great partnership.

I liked being married instead of the girl who's looking for a guy.

The man you married is yours to have and to hold for the rest of ever, even if he starts chewing tobacco or decides to pierce his hairy nipple and buy a Corvette, because you very plainly said - or at least implied - you were in it for better or for worse.

Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you.

My parents have been married for 42 years. Their marriage has been - from what I can see - a happy one.

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

If you ask me to describe my relationship, I mean - words are too clumsy to accurately describe how I feel in that regard, particularly in an interview. It's a strange thing.

To me, a forever love is a bond that can't be broken.

There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart.

There's a big difference between falling in love and being in love. There's a big difference between infatuation and falling in love.

A happy wife is a happy life.

I don't want to make any judgments, and I don't want to preach, but I'm hoping that marriage can work: that when people do fall in love, when people do find their soul mate, everyone sticks to it. It has the potential to be a very powerful thing, marriage.

The biggest surprise about our marriage is that Erin was out there.

Nobody warned me that when you fall in love, you really fall in love forever.

When I talk about the importance of the institution of marriage, I think of the commitment and the significance of standing in front of those closest to you and promising fidelity to your partner 'til death do you part.'

Marriage isn't something you agree to do one day, and if things don't go right, then it's over.

Romance isn't measured by how viral your proposal goes. The Internet age may try to sell you something different, but don't ever forget that viral is closely associated with sickness - so don't ever make being viral your goal.