Proverbs:

A fair face may be a foul bargain.
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A fair face may hide a foul heart.
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A fair face is half a portion.
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A fair face will get its praise though the owner keep silent.
Danish
A pretty face is as good as a drummer.
German
A pretty face is half a dowry.
German
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
Keats
All orators are dumb when beauty pleadeth.
Shakespeare
All that’s fair must fade.
Italian
Beauties without fortune have sweethearts plenty but husbands none at all.
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Beauty and charity have always a mortal quarrel between them.
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Beauty and folly are often companions.
French
Beauty and folly are sisters.
German
Beauty and understanding go rarely together.
German
Beauty blemished once forever’s lost.
Shakespeare
Beauty carries its dower in its face.
Danish
Beauty comes not by forcing.
Turkish
Beauty doth varnish age.
Shakespeare
Beauty draws more than oxen.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
Pope
Beauty in the unworthy is poison in a casket of gold.
Tamil
Beauty is a frail advantage.
Ovid
Beauty is a good letter of introduction.
German
Beauty is a witch against whose charms faith melteth into blood.
Shakespeare
Beauty is as good as ready money.
German
Beauty is but dross if honesty be lost.
Dutch
Beauty is but skin deep.
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Beauty is worse than wine; it intoxicates both the holder and the beholder.
Zimmerman
Beauty is no inheritance.
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Beauty is one of God’s gifts.
Lewes
Beauty is potent but money is more potent.
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Beauty is the eye’s food and the soul’s sorrow.
German
Beauty is the subject of a blemish.
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Beauty is the wife’s best dowry.
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Beauty is truth, truth beauty.
Keats
Beauty lives with kindness.
Shakespeare
Beauty may have fair leaves but bitter fruit.
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Beauty opens locked doors.
German
Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.
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Beauty vanishes, virtue endures.
German
Beauty will buy no beef.
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Beauty without bounty avails not.
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Beauty without modesty is infamous.
German
Beauty without understanding is vain talk.
German
Beauty without virtue is a curse.
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Beauty without virtue is a rose without fragrance.
German
Beauty’s tears are lovelier than her smiles.
Campbell
Good looks buy nothing in the market.
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Health and wealth create beauty.
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How goodness brightens beauty.
Hannah Moore
It is not the greatest beauties that inspire the most profound passion.
French
Man cannot divide beauty into dollars.
Polish
One cannot live on beauty.
German
One does not put beauty in the kettle.
German
Over the greatest beauty hangs the greatest ruin.
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She that is born a beauty is half married.
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She who is born a beauty is born betrothed.
Italian
She who is born handsome is born married.
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The beautiful are never desolate, but some one always loves them.
Bailey
The beautiful is always true.
French
The beetle is a beauty in the eyes of its mother.
African
The very autumn of a form once fine retains its beauties.
Euripides
We seize the beautiful and reject the useful.
La Fontaine
Proverbs theme "Beauty" in English
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