2007-12-24 09:03:09 · 10 answers · asked by Shan 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
Since beauty is most commonly used to signify a visual aesthetic judgment, or a superficial quality as others have mentioned, the quote is simply pointing out the obvious, that beauty is indeed only skin deep. What it is supposed to then make you consider is whether the value we as a society (and many of us as individuals) place on beauty is truly the way to determine who and what a person is. If beauty is only skin deep and does not always reflect the person's values, compassion, thoughts, and all of the other qualities we tend to value in true friends and lovers, then beauty is a very poor way to determine a person's value.
Unfortunately, the knife often cuts both ways when it comes to beauty. Many times we are so aware that beauty is not a definitive indication of the type of person one is, we tend to be overly critical of someone who is considered beautiful. The saying is not meant to imply that if one is beautiful then one is automatically shallow and superficial, yet we often hold attractive people to different standards because we assume they must be lacking on the inside if they are beautiful on the outside.
So the quote simply means not to judge by the outside alone, beauty is not an indication either way of what is on the inside.
2007-12-24 10:52:42 · answer #1 · answered by JEM 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The meaning is actually the opposite from what it says. We know that real beauty is more than just looks on the outside. Therefore real beauty is deep inside you. Who you are, what you think, feel and do all contribute to your beauty.
So I think 'Beauty is only Skin Deep' is just a sarcasm for people who think looks matter so much.
2007-12-25 04:41:25 · answer #2 · answered by yblues 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are talking of the beauty of the skin, then that is only skin deep. That is as far as it can go.
However, beauty can be present in lots of different ways in people.
It can reside in the fluidity of the body movement of the athlete or dancer, in the poetic imagination of the writer, in the mind of the thinker with his ability to create, in the soul where love resides, and on and on.
No. thankfully beauty is much more than skin deep. Ask any mother of a deformed child.
Perhaps that is why we have the fairy tales like "The Frog Prince" and "Beauty and the Beast".
2007-12-25 03:59:45 · answer #3 · answered by Rose 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't really make sense, now does it?
You call it beauty and you call it superficial, so isn't it then NOT real beauty?
If the point is that real beauty comes from within, then the quotation is doubly ambiguous.
On the other hand, who wants a beautiful liver?
2007-12-24 17:50:29 · answer #4 · answered by Lorenzo Steed 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's the cold, hard, magnificent truth. So many "beautiful" people have horrible personalities or do bad things...
2007-12-24 17:44:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think it means that beauty is not how you look on the inside its how you fell,act,and come out to other as a person.
2007-12-24 17:11:32 · answer #6 · answered by jackjalyne 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolute truth.
2007-12-24 17:10:10 · answer #7 · answered by walyank 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's what it says. Beauty is deeper then what you see with your eyes.
2007-12-24 17:22:39 · answer #8 · answered by cj 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a maxim similar to, "You can't tell a book by its cover."
Outside does not determine, reveal, inner value.
2007-12-24 18:41:17 · answer #9 · answered by ipygmalion 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
ugly goes all the way to the bone!
2007-12-25 18:44:01 · answer #10 · answered by parkermbg 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋