BEAUTY IS ONLY SKIN DEEP Definition & Meaning

Beauty is only skin deep

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

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Idioms and Phrases

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

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In “Beauty Is Only Skin Deep,” what seems to be an embracing Black couple provides one of the show’s most peaceful, romantic moments.

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

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“Beauty is only skin deep,” Parker said, “but ugly goes clean to the bone.”

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In a larger sense, however, the A-lister has previously revealed that she thinks beauty is only skin deep.

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