Beauty is only skin deep



Beauty is only skin deep.

something that you say which means a person's character is more important than their appearance She may not be conventionally pretty but you know what they say, beauty's only skin deep.
See also: beauty, deep, skin

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."
See also: beauty, deep, skin

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Rhianonhri-AN-ahnWelsh
TiiaTEE:-ahFinnish
BastBAHST (English)Egyptian Mythology
Pax-Roman Mythology
Catahecassa-Native American, Shawnee
Fereydoun-Persian, Persian Mythology