Definition
Prepended to praise of oneself or one's own doings, as a form of modesty.
In Context
- "But at any rate, and on the principle that of two hypotheses, each in itself adequate, we should choose the simpler, I suggest in all modesty that we shall do better with our own than with Coleridge's, which has the further disadvantage of being scarcely amenable to positive evidence."
- "It seems to me, in all modesty, that you are well paired."
- "I think I may say, in all modesty, that I have done a rare thing. I have invented a new sensation."
- "I speak in all modesty as I say this, but I discovered at that moment that I have a fierce will to live."
Also Said As
- if I do say so myself
- not to brag
- though I say it who should not