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McCall won the cake for being the ugliest man there. (Newspapers_com)Īt the supper at Pleasant Prairie school house last Saturday night Dr. In 1899 a newspaper in Olathe, Kansas published an instance using the word “clear”: 1899 May 5, The Olathe Register, Lenexa, Quote, Column 5, Olathe, Kansas. In 1859 the “North Carolina University Magazine” published an article titled “The Choice of a Wife” which included an instance presented as a verse: 1859 March, North Carolina University Magazine, Volume 8, Number 7, The Choice of a Wife, Start, Quote, Jas. In the meantime, my own conviction may be expressed in a formula in which I have often before uttered it:- The saying that beauty is but skin-deep is but a skin-deep saying. He employed a variant in his essay “Personal Beauty” which was reprinted in the 1858 collection “Essays: Scientific, Political and Speculative”: 1858, Essays: Scientific, Political and Speculative by Herbert Spencer, (Reprinted Chiefly from The Quarterly Reviews), Number VII: Personal Beauty, Start, Quote, Longman, Brown, … Continue reading The English philosopher Herbert Spencer disagreed with the simple adage from the 1600s.

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Beauty’s only skin deep, but ugliness goes to the bone. She was a magnum bonum gal, at that time a little faded now, you see, but that’s to be expected. The phrase “magnum bonum” meant “great good” in this context: 1854 January 19, The Autauga Citizen, Sam Stackpole’s Adventure by Simon Suggs Jr., Quote, Column 4, Prattville, Alabama. In 1854 a newspaper in Prattville, Alabama published “Sam Stackpole’s Adventure” by the pseudonymous Simon Suggs Jr. “But ugliness goes to the bone, they say also,” remarked Mrs. “When beauty was shared, I was behind the door, and my portion came through the keyhole, I’m sure: but beauty’s only skin deep, after all, they say.” The piece “Tavern Heads” by Charles Whitehead included dialog containing the twisted adage: 1840, Heads of the People or, Portraits of the English, Drawn by Kenny Meadows, With Original Essays by Distinguished Writers, Tavern Heads by Charles Whitehead, Start, Quote , … Continue reading In 1840 a collection of essays and illustrations titled “Heads of the People or, Portraits of the English” was published in London.

“Beauty is but skin deep,” quoth an old maid, who had no pretensions to it “and so is ugliness,” replied a young lady who had no pretensions to that.

In 1829 a newspaper in Exeter, England printed an anonymous short item containing a partial syntactic match for the saying however, the semantics were different: 1829 February 5, Trewman’s Exeter Flying-Post, Varieties, Quote, Column 1, Exeter, Devon, England. This evidence was not substantive, and QI believes that the attribution to Parker is currently unsupported.īelow are additional selected citations in chronological order. It is a trite saying that beauty is but skin deep, yet I have heard it said that ugly goes to the bone, and I am sure there is nothing in this doctrine so beautiful as to prevent its penetrating even to the marrow.ĭorothy Parker died in 1967, and the earliest linkage, known to QI, between Parker and the saying occurred in 1977. Chief Justice Rational, In the Vale of Kentucky, Start , … Continue reading Boldface added to excerpts by QI: 1824 January 23, American Farmer, Volume 5, Number 44, To the Editor of the American Farmer from A Backwoodsman, Pleas Before the Hon. An instance of the adage appeared together with the phrases “trite saying” and “I have heard it said” signaling familiarity and anonymity. Maryland published a piece by “A Backwoodsman” about a fictional court case. Quote Investigator: In 1824 “American Farmer” of Baltimore.

This insight has often been attributed to the prominent wit Dorothy Parker. Beauty is only skin-deep but ugly goes clean through.Beauty is only skin-deep and ugly goes clear to the bone.Beauty’s only skin-deep, but ugliness goes to the bone.Here are three closely related instances: This assertion has inspired a wide variety of twisted reactions and elaborations. Dorothy Parker? Jean Kerr? Charles Whitehead? Simon Suggs Jr.? Sam Stackpole? Abe Martin? Kin Hubbard? Herbert Spencer? Mort Walker? Anonymous?ĭear Quote Investigator: Beauty is only skin-deep according to an adage that can be traced back to the 1600s.

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