in all modesty

alternative with all modesty

1. idiomaticPrepended to praise of oneself or one's own doings, as a form of modesty.

   It seems to me, in all modesty, that you are well paired.

   1934, Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales, page 134

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   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.

   1916, Arthur Quiller-Couch, On the Art of Writing, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 78

   I think I may say, in all modesty, that I have done a rare thing. I have invented a new sensation.

   1990, Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game, page 20

   I speak in all modesty as I say this, but I discovered at that moment that I have a fierce will to live.

   2000, Yann Martel, Life of Pi, page 197

   Synonyms: if I do say so myself, not to brag, though I say it who should not