Humble Pie

To eat humble pie, in common usage, is to apologize and face humiliation for a serious error. Humble pie, or umble pie, is also a term for a variety of pastries based on medieval meat pies.

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Famous quotes containing the words humble and/or pie:

    “If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “No man’s pie is freed
    From his ambitious finger.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)