Beauty is in the eye of the beholder...
The saying first appeared in John Lyly's Euphues and his England.
"...as neere is Fancie to Beautie, as the pricke to the Rose, as the stalke to the rynde, as the earth to the roote."
Followed in Shakespeare's Love's Labours Lost.
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
Nevertheless, the line is credited to Margaret Wolfe Hungerford aka The Duchess. The line appeared in her 1878 novel, Molly Bawn.
And without further ado...I present you...Berta...
Rambling Gypsy