Beauty

Tout est beau sans chandelles. “La nuit tous les chats sont gris.”

Beauty is but skin deep.

“O formose puer, nimium ne crede colori.”

Virgil, Bucolics, ii.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.