Beauty is in the eye of the beholder  

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  1. The evaluation depending on perception of person who sees and considers.
    "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." — ?
    "Whether that was abusive or not, that is in the eye of the beholder." — Randall Vogt

The idea behind this proverbial phrase is a very old: Theocritus in Idyll says "γὰρ ἕρωṯί ρολλάκίς‥ṯὰ μή καλὰ καλὰ ρέϕανṯαί", "for in the eyes of love that which is not beautiful often seems beautiful."

And Hume in Essays Moral & Political, "Beauty, properly speaking, lyes‥in the Sentiment or Taste of the Reader."

Charles Rembar added to it: "Pornography is in the 'groin' of the beholder."

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