fine feathers do not make fine birds

A person who wears fine clothes may not be as good as he looks. — A proverb.

/Mary is pretty and she wears pretty clothes, but she is very mean. Fine feathers do not make fine birds./

Compare: HANDSOME IS AS HANDSOME DOES.

Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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