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  Beauty is only skin deep

  Physical beauty is superficial and is not as important as a person's intellectual, emotional, and spiritual qualities.
• beauty is only skin deep
  beauty is only skin deep

  External attractiveness has no relation to goodness or essential quality. This maxim was first stated by Sir Thomas Overbury in his poem “A Wife” (1613): “All the carnall beauty of my wife is but skin-deep.“

Beauty is only skin deep

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1. Physical beauty is superficial and is not as important as a person's intellectual, emotional, and spiritual qualities.

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beauty is only skin deep Idioms  

1. External attractiveness has no relation to goodness or essential quality. This maxim was first stated by Sir Thomas Overbury in his poem “A Wife” (1613): “All the carnall beauty of my wife is but skin-deep.“

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Beauty is only skin deep, but goodness goes right through.

From Little Abe Or, The Bishop of Berry Brow by F. Jewell

"Beauty is only skin deep," said the philosopher, and no truer dictum was ever uttered.

From The Lion and the Mouse; a Story of an American Life by Charles Klein

It’s hard to grow up being told beauty is only skin deep, only to see it valued above nearly all else.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2022

What she needs to learn is that true beauty is only skin deep.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2019

They’re the windows to her soul, after all, and as a flag-waving feminist, Jamie knows that beauty is only skin deep.

From Time ● Aug. 23, 2014

But Sainsbury's reminds the Independent that beauty is only skin deep.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2012

"The pity of it," said her husband, "that beauty is only skin deep."

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 by Various