beauty is only skin-deep

beauty is only skin-deep
Physical beauty is no guarantee of good character, temperament, etc. Cf. a 1613 T. OVERBURY Wife (1614) B8v All the carnall beautie of my wife, Is but skinne-deep.

1616 J. DAVIES Select Second Husband B3 Beauty’s but skin-deepe.

1829 COBBETT 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 E. M. INGRAHAM 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.

1978 A. PRICE ’44 Vintage xix. Beauty is only skin-deep, but it’s only the skin you see.


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