fine feathers do not make fine birds

fine feathers do not make fine birds {literary}

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.

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