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:

    “In a thousand apparently humble ways men busy themselves to make some right take the place of some wrong,—if it is only to make a better paste blacking,—and they are themselves so much the better morally for it.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

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