| You have a considerable amount of self-confidence, and you like yourself without being conceited or boastful. |
| But I want to remind him of this one simple fact before he becomes excessively boastful, as he is wont to do. |
| He is a rather unpleasant figure throughout much of the play, a boastful blowhard, a bully, a coward. |
| He oozes confidence in his ability to please, without any of the boastful pretense that a human with his charms would inevitably have. |
| His pleasure when events went his way was the uncomplicated pleasure of a child or a boastful teenager. |
| Plato describes him as a vain man being both arrogant and boastful, having a wide but superficial knowledge. |
