綺麗だってことは皮膚の深さ分のことだけだ。

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English Translation

Beauty is but skin deep.

Furigana

綺麗(きれい)だってことは皮膚(ひふ)の深(ふか)さ分(ぶん)のことだけだ。

Romanji

Kirei datte koto wa hifu no fukasabun no koto dake da.

Words

綺麗 (きれい)

pretty; lovely; beautiful; fair; clean; clear; pure; tidy; neat; completely; entirely

だって (だって)

after all; because; but; even; too; as well; also; they say; I hear; you mean

事 (こと、こん)

thing; matter; incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis; circumstances; situation; state of affairs; work; business; affair; after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to; nominalizing suffix; pretending to ...; playing make-believe ...; alias; aka; nickname; alternative name; also known as

は (は)

topic marker particle; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis

皮膚 (ひふ、ひフ)

skin

の (の)

indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question

丈 (だけ)

only; just; merely; simply; no more than; nothing but; alone; as (e.g. as soon as, as much as); worth

だ (だ)

be; is; indicates past or completed action; indicates light imperative