cliché: beauty is in the eye of the beholder

Meaning: Beauty (or ugliness) is subjective (definition).

Example: She says he’s handsome, I say he’s average; such is our notion of beauty, which is in the eye of the beholder.

Origins: In various forms, 3^rd century BC Greek, 16^th century AD Shakespeare and Lyly, but not in its current form until the 19^th century AD. (Source.) 

Rewrites:

• in beauty, the beholder sets the gauge
• beauty is subject to the jaundiced eye
• glamour is an astigmatism true to the beholder
• fairness favors the beholder
• loveliness is the gift of the onlooker
• charm is an artifact of the beguiled
• grace is a spectator event
• elegance is a biased view

Discussion: This rewrite took me a while. The trick here is to decide what to call “beauty” and then how to acknowledge its reception.