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.

Read more about Humble Pie:  Etymology

Famous quotes containing the words humble and/or pie:

    “The gods themselves,
    Humbling their deities to love, have taken
    The shapes of beasts upon them. Jupiter
    Became a bull, and bellowed; the green Neptune
    A ram, and bleated; and the fire-robed god,
    Golden Apollo, a poor humble swain.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

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