what do you understand about the phrase "beauty is in the eye of the beholder"?

Answer 1

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

Meaning

Literal meaning

Origin

This saying first appeared in the 3rd century BC in Greek. It didn't appear in its current form in print until the 19th century, but in the meantime there were various written forms that expressed much the same thought. In 1588, the English dramatist John Lyly, in his Euphues and his England, wrote:

"...as neere is Fancie to Beautie, as the pricke to the Rose, as the stalke to the rynde, as the earth to the roote."

Shakespeare expressed a similar sentiment in Love's Labours Lost, 1588:

Good Lord Boyet, my beauty, though but mean,
Needs not the painted flourish of your praise:
Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye,
Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues

Answer 2

To me, I think it means that everyone's standard of beauty is different thus it depends on the person or "...the eye of the beholder"

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Answer 3

i get that it means while someone may look at a flower and say its beautiful but another may say that it is the ugliest flower in the world beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Answer 4

It means that what is considered beautiful depends on the person doin the beholding.

Answer 5

Beauty is in the eye of the person who sees it...in other words not everyone will agree that someone is beautiful or something is beautiful.

Answer 6

excerpts: "This means that something or someone is beautiful, depending on the person who is looking.

For example, if my child draws a picture, using many colors and asymmetrical lines, and writes down, "Dad, I love you", I think that it is beautiful. But if another person looks at the picture, he may think, "It's good, but my son drew a better picture."

Another example is in art. If I look at a painting by a famous artist, it is possible that I can't understand it and think it's ugly, but if another person such as a famous painter sees it, he will surely say that it is beautiful.

I think people judge beauty just in relationship to themselves. If I wear casual clothes to my job, the people who like wearing formal clothes might say that I look ugly."

Answer 7

Beauty is subjective. People can only express their personal or professional opinions about something. No one can say with absolute authority that something is beautiful or not.

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Answer 8

The message is essentially 'perception is everything'. For instance, a woman may appear beautiful to one man, but quite ordinary to another. Nothing has changed about the woman--it is only the perceiver that has changed.

Answer 9

Everyone has their own idea what is beautiful and is likely to be different than someone else's idea of beauty.

Answer 10

That it's about personal perspective.

As it is said - there a few real truths in the world...the rest is just perspective.