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, for in the eyes of love that which is not beautiful often seems beautiful. Cf.1742
HUME
Essays Moral & Political
II. 151 Beauty, properly speaking, lyes .. in the Sentiment or Taste of the Reader.
1769Hist. Emily Montague
IV. 205
You should remember, my dear, that beauty is in the lover's eye.
1788
in
Observer
IV. cxviii.
Beauty, gentlemen, is in the eye, I aver it to be in the eye of the beholder and not in the object itself.
1847
Jane Eyre
II. ii.
Most true is it that ‘beauty is in the eye of the gazer’.
1878
Molly Bawn
I. xii.
‘I have heard she is beautiful—is she?’ ‘Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,’ quotes Marcia.
1940
Scott of Antarctic
II. 48
‘Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.’ The eye, which is the reflector of the external world, is also the mirror of the soul within.
1997
Washington Post
26 Sept. C5
Beauty—they say it's in the eye of the beholder. But I question whether it really has that much to do with the eyes.
beauty;
love
;
taste
BEAUTY is only skin-deep
Physical beauty is no guarantee of good character, temperament, etc. Cf.
a
1613
T. OVERBURY
Wife
(1614) B8
V
All the carnall beautie of my wife, Is but skinne-deep.
1616
Select Second Husband
B3
Beauty's but skin-deepe.
1742
Pamela
IV. Ix.
Beauty is but .. a mere skin-deep perfection.
1829
Advice to Young Men
III. cxxix.
The less favoured part of the sex say, that ‘beauty is but skin deep’.. but it is very agreeable though, for all that.
1882
Bond & Free
xiii.
Mother used to say that beauty was only skin deep, but I never before realized that bones could be so fearfully repulsive.
1921
Traveller in Little Things
iv.
It is only the ugly (and bad) who fondly cherish the delusion that beauty .. is only skin-deep and the rest of it.
1978
'44 Vintage
xix.
Beauty is only skin-deep, but it's only the skin you see.
beauty
a
1613
T. OVERBURY
Wife
(1614) B8
V
All the carnall beautie of my wife, Is but skinne-deep.
1616Select Second Husband
B3
Beauty's but skin-deepe.
1742
Pamela
IV. Ix.
Beauty is but .. a mere skin-deep perfection.
1829
Advice to Young Men
III. cxxix.
The less favoured part of the sex say, that ‘beauty is but skin deep’.. but it is very agreeable though, for all that.
1882
Bond & Free
xiii.
Mother used to say that beauty was only skin deep, but I never before realized that bones could be so fearfully repulsive.
1921
Traveller in Little Things
iv.
It is only the ugly (and bad) who fondly cherish the delusion that beauty .. is only skin-deep and the rest of it.
1978
'44 Vintage
xix.
Beauty is only skin-deep, but it's only the skin you see.
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