Who said that ';beauty is in the eye of the beholder?'; Manilyn Monroe?

It is a sentiment that has been around long before Marilyn Monroe, 3rd Century bce to be exact. The sentiment (not the exact words, however) has appeared in later writings, like those of Shakespeare, David Humme, and Ben Franklin.





The writer, Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, is believed to have started using the phrase as it is today, in her 1878 book, 'Molly Bawn'.Who said that ';beauty is in the eye of the beholder?'; Manilyn Monroe?
It originates from Aesops Fables.


http://www.dailycelebrations.com/beauty.鈥?/a>Who said that ';beauty is in the eye of the beholder?'; Manilyn Monroe?
first references are from Theocritus .. he stated





for in the eyes of love that which is not beautiful often seems beautiful
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder


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





Benjamin Franklin, in Poor Richard's Almanack, 1741, wrote:





Beauty, like supreme dominion


Is but supported by opinion





David Hume's Essays, Moral and Political, 1742, include:





';Beauty in things exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.';





The person who is widely credited with coining the saying in its current form is Margaret Wolfe Hungerford (n茅e Hamilton), who wrote many books, often under the pseudonym of 'The Duchess'. In Molly Bawn, 1878, there's the line ';Beauty is in the eye of the beholder';, which is the earliest citation of it that I can find in print.

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