- Beauty, like supreme dominion Is but supported by opinion
- David Hume's Essays, Moral and Political, 1742, include:
- "Beauty in things exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.“
- Margaret Hungerford coined 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder' - taking her lead from 16th century authors like Shakespeare.
- The person who is widely credited with coining the saying in its current form is Margaret Wolfe Hungerford (née Hamilton), who wrote many books, often under the pseudonym of 'The Duchess'. In Molly Bawn, 1878, there's the line "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder", which is the earliest citation that I can find in print.
- The 1980s saw the coining of the term 'beer goggles' (the increased attractiveness of the opposite sex when one is drunk) and the rather tortured joke that 'when
wearing beer goggles, beauty is in the eye of the beer-holder'. - wearing beer goggles, beauty is in the eye of the beer-holder'.
- See also: the List of Proverbs.
- Meaning | Synonyms
- different people have different ideas and views about what is beautiful
- not all people have the same opinions as to what is attractive or beautiful
- the perception of beauty is subjective
- it is not possible to judge beauty objectively
- what one person finds beautiful may not appeal to another
- Example Sentences
- I don’t see why he finds her attractive, I think she is downright ugly; but, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as they say.
- Jane was gushing about how handsome her partner looked in his brand new tuxedo, but I thought he was looking pretty ordinary. Well, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
- Even the ugliest of people will have someone who finds them attractive, for beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as goes the saying.
- I can’t believe he finally settled for that ugly little car. And he loves it too! Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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