A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.
Kong Fu Zi

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.
Jonathan Swift

A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.
Mary Wortley

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
Niccolo Machiavelli

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.
Bryant H. McGill

And I was ashamed of myself for feeling like I had to do that in order to look a certain way. I felt misshapen, just not natural anymore. And I think it was a big stimulator of my drug use.
Jamie Lee Curtis

And they said if we help with the crisis, they would do a lot of positive acts. After we helped in those crises, they showed negative acts and the Japanese and Turks were ashamed.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.
Edgar Rice Burroghs

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
Horace Mann

But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England.
Minnie Driver

By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.
Solomon Schechter

Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.
Thomas de Quincey

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
Jean Genet

David has asked me, a number of people have asked me and said, What performance do you like best or what's the best film you've made and so on and I don't really have any hesitation that the film I'm least embarrassed by and ashamed of or uneasy about is Shadowlands.
Richard Attenborough

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
H. L. Mencken

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
Benjamin Franklin

'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'
John Abbott

I ain't a bit ashamed of anything.
Anthony Trollope

I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.
Fanny Burney

I am ashamed the law is such an ass.
George Chapman