Sin is ashamed of sin. [ Chapman ]

Envy is ashamed and afraid to be seen. [ Proverb ]

The world is ashamed of being virtuous. [ Sterne ]

Scorn the proud man that is ashamed to weep. [ Young ]

He bears poverty very ill who is ashamed of it. [ Proverb ]

So long as you are ignorant, be not ashamed to learn. [ Proverb ]

She that is ashamed to eat at table, eats in private. [ Proverb ]

The proudest vice is ashamed to wear its own face long. [ Proverb ]

Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is. [ Proverb ]

I never knew a man of letters ashamed of his profession. [ Thackeray ]

What I was ashamed to say, love has ordered me to write. [ Ovid ]

To blush at vice, shews the world you are ashamed of it. [ Proverb ]

Men may blush to hear what they were not ashamed to act. [ Proverb ]

He who is ashamed of his calling ever lives shamefully in it. [ Proverb ]

Wisdom itself is not ashamed to be sprightly and gay upon occasion. [ Proverb ]

Whoever blushes is already guilty: true innocence is ashamed of nothing. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. [ Swift ]

There are few people who are not ashamed of their amours when the fit is over. [ Rochefoucauld ]

I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning. [ Izaak Walton ]

We should often be ashamed of our best actions if the world saw the motives which inspire us. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

No man talks of that which he is desirous to conceal, and every man desires to conceal that of which he is ashamed. [ Johnson ]

The way to avoid the imputation of impudence is not to be ashamed of what we do, but never to do what we ought to be ashamed of. [ Cicero ]

We should often have reason to be ashamed of our most brilliant actions if the world could see the motives from which they spring. [ Rochefoucauld ]

You who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your calling, are a snob; as are you who boast of your pedigree, or are proud of your wealth. [ Thackeray ]

When Fame stands by us all alone, she is an angel clad in light and strength; but when Love touches her she drops her sword, and fades away, ghostlike and ashamed. [ Ouida ]

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition. But in this respect every author is a Spartan, being more ashamed of the discovery than of the depredation. [ Colton ]

Oddities and singularities of behavior may attend genius; when they do, they are its misfortunes and its blemishes. The man of true genius will be ashamed of them; at least he will never affect to distinguish himself by whimsical peculiarities. [ S. W. Temple ]

Ages of ignorance and simplicity are thought to be ages of purity. But the direct contrary I believe to be the case. Rude periods have that grossness of manners, which is as unfriendly to virtue as luxury itself. Men are less ashamed as they are less polished. [ Warton ]

So long as thou art ignorant, be not ashamed to learn : he that is so fondly modest, not to acknowledge his own defects of knowledge, shall in time, be so foully impudent to justify his own ignorance; ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and, justified, the chiefest of all follies. [ Quarks ]

It is the nature of man to be proud, when man by nature hath nothing to be proud of. He more adorneth the creature than he adoreth the Creator; and makes not only his belly his god, but his body. I am ashamed of their glory whose glory is their shame. If nature will needs have me to be proud of something, I will be proud only of this, that I am proud of nothing. [ Arthur Warwick ]

If I live in the Wild West days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That was if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like, Hey look. He's carrying a soldering iron! and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice. Then everyone would get real quiet and ashamed, because they made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]