beauty is only skin deep
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
1600s.
Proverb edit
- What matters is a person's character, rather than their appearance.
- 2014 September 25, Hugo Macdonald, “Could those utopian hoardings for new developments get any more nauseating?”, in The Guardian[2], →ISSN:
- Isn’t it time the marketing budgets were reapportioned to the bones and muscles of the building themselves? At present, the beauty in London’s building boom is barely skin deep.
Translations edit
a person's character is more important than their outward appearance
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See also edit
References edit
- Gregory Y. Titelman, Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings, 1996, →ISBN, p. 21.
Further reading edit
- “beauty is only skin deep”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
- Jennifer Speake, editor (2015), “BEAUTY is only skin-deep”, in Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, 6th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 15.