A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

beautiful see SMALL is beautiful.
BEAUTY draws with a single hair

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  1591 J. FLORIO Second Fruits 183 Ten teemes of oxen draw much lesse, Than doth one haire of Helens tresse. 1640 G. HERBERT Outlandish Proverbs no. 685 Beauty drawes more then oxen. 1666 G. TORRIANO Piazza Universale 199 One hair of a woman draws more than a hundred yoke of oxen. 1712 POPE Rape of Lock II. 28 And beauty draws us with a single hair. 1941 ‘M. COLES’ They tell no Tales xxii. Beauty draws me with a single hair if it’s blonde enough. 1945 R. L. HINE Confessions (ed. 2) 91 The old adage.. that ‘beauty draws more than oxen.’ "beauty
  

BEAUTY is in the eye of the beholder
Beauty is not judged objectively, but according to the beholder’s estimation. The idea is a very old one: THEOCRITUS Idyll vi. 18 ''' ™ i.mj/.u for in
the eyes of love that which is not beautiful often seems beautiful. Cf. 1742 HUME Essays Moral & Political II. 151 Beauty, properly speaking, lyes.. in the Sentiment or Taste of the Reader. _ПСП T7 Dnnnizr 77™,’/., + ТЛ T ЭПСГ _mTT
U1769 f. brooke Hist. Emily Montague iv. 205 you should remember, my dear, that beauty is in the lover ’s eye. 1788 R. CUMBERLAND in Observer IV. cxviii. Beauty, gentlemen, is in the eye, I aver it to be in the eye of the beholder and not in the object itself. 1878 M. W. HUNGERFoRD Molly Bawn I. xii. ‘I have heard she is beautiful—is she?’ ‘Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,’ quotes Marcia. 2001 Spectator 8 Dec. 58 This at once confirmed the conclusion that I had just reached after studying the photographs of the child Wladyslaw.. : beauty is not merely in the eye but also in the imagination of the beholder. "beauty; love; taste