I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof.

-Browne, SirThomas
^5  Religio Medici (published1643), pt.1, section 40.

Don't let us be familiar or fond, nor kiss before folks, like my Lady Fadler and Sir Francis: nor go to Hyde-Park together the first Sunday in a new chariot, to provoke eyes and whispers, and then never be seen there together again; as if we were proud of one another the first week, and ashamed of one another ever after† Let usbe verystrangeandwell-bred: Let usbe asstrangeasif wehad beenmarried a great while, and aswell-bred as if we were not married at all.

-Congreve,William
  Millamant to Mirabell. The Way of the World, act 4, sc.5.

It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^1 Great Expectations, ch.14.

Amanisseldomashamedoffeeling that hecannot lovea woman so well when he sees a certain greatness in her: nature having intended greatness for men.

-Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans
^2  Middlemarch, bk.4, ch.39.

Unmoved though witlings sneer and rivals rail; Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
c.1737  Irene, prologue (first produced1749).

Whena stupid manisdoing something heisashamedof, he always declares that it is his duty.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Apollodorus. Caesar and Cleopatra, act 3.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  JohnTanner. Man and Superman, act1.

You can't figure him out like a fact, because to Reagan themainfact was avision† He came fromtheheartland of the country, where people could be down-to-earth yet feel that the sky is the limitönot ashamed of, or cynical about, the American dream.

-Shultz, George P(ratt)
  Of Ronald Reagan.Turmoil andTriumph.

I am deeplyashamed at my failure to serve His Majesty.

-Yokoi, Shoichi
  Announcement to journalists atTokyo airport, 2 Feb. Quoted in Edward Behr Hirohito, epilogue.