What's in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet

1. Lines from the play Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare. Juliet, prevented from marrying Romeo by the feud between their families, complains that Romeo's name is all that keeps him from her. (Compare “Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?”)

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But was Tanya right: Is a person’s name her destiny? The most famous argument to the contrary is Shakespeare’s: “What’s in a name? that which we call a rose/ By any other name would smell as sweet.”

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When Juliet desires her lover Romeo to abandon his patrimony so as to take possession of her, she utters these immortal lines: "What's in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet."

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“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”

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"What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet."

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What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.

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