I don’t think it’s a good advert for any restaurant, a fat chef, and secondly, who wants to eat a dessert when the chef’s a fat pig.

What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I’m not who I say I am when it comes to my faith – something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time.

It is easier to be critical than correct.

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

What ‚multiculturalism‘ boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture – and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.

There’s people that appreciate what I do; there’s people that criticize it.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

It’s very hard when you eat out every day for a living, and a new restaurant comes along and you haven’t got that same vigour that you had 10 years ago.

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man’s most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

I am the most unselfish chef in Britain today.

I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

It’s much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.

The President is always abused. If he isn’t, he isn’t doing anything.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person’s enemies say about him.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don’t think it’s good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You’re not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I’m going to emerge then submerge.

When I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn’t I always wish for that? Yeah, I did.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

Ice-cream is exquisite – what a pity it isn’t illegal.

Give a critic an inch, he’ll write a play.

You can call me the bad boy chef all you want. I’m not going to freak out about it. I’m not that bad. I’m certainly not a boy, and it’s been a while since I’ve been a chef.

My mother cooked like a scientist. She had a giant Chinese-style cleaver that she chopped with, and a cupboard full of spices.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

People in Latin America… love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

Find what’s hot, find what’s just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.

The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills, marketing skills, cooking skills, personality and, more importantly, delivering on the plate. So you need to be strong. Physically fit. So my chefs get weighed every time they come into the kitchen.

I find it amusing that I’m on the Internet now, because I’ve criticized it, but mainly I’ve criticized it on the basis of, ‚What are you going to do with it?‘

I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.

He who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against.

Yes, some people say to me you’re too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

If I’m in the ‚hood, I like Chef Creole’s Haitian rice and stewed chicken.

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

America is just downright mean.

I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn’t happen 20 years ago.

The last person I have ever criticized is an official. They have a tough job to do. Things are happening so quick.

I’m a decent cook; I’m a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

There are people out there who hate me and who say I’m arrogant, vain, and whatever. That’s all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

Burroughs is crap. Crap.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

It’s not difficult for me to put my feelings into written form. I try to be concise and to go direct to the subject. This is what people like about my work, and what the critics hate.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner’s medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it’s three-Michelin’s stars, there’s no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.

Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine’s not so great.

Everyone who is critical of Israeli policy is deluged by crazed messages intended to flood their email system or, more insidiously, passwords are accessed and messages sent out under their name! I’m sure it’s illegal. It’s also an effort to undermine free speech.