beauty is only skin deep

== English == === Alternative forms === beauty is only skin-deep === Etymology === First use appears c. 1809, although beauty is but skin-deep appears much earlier. === Proverb === beauty is only skin deep A person's character matters more than their appearance. Synonym: beauty is but skin-deep ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== it's what's inside that counts === References === Gregory Y. Titelman, Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings, 1996, →ISBN, p. 21. === Further reading === “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.