Self-respecting Quotes
A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
Simone Weil
Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.
Andrew Motion
All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.
Hypatia