As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves. – Daniel J. Boorstin

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy. – Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep her company. РFran̤ois de la Rochefoucauld