What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
 William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (1597). copy citation

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Author William Shakespeare
Source Romeo and Juliet
Topic language naming meaning
Date 1597
Language English
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Note Written between 1591 and 1595
Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1112/pg1112.html

Context

“'Tis but thy name that is my enemy.
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet. So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd, Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name;
And for that name, which is no part of thee,” source

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