Esoteric wisdom Quote by Wendell Johnson

“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”

— William Shakespeare

“That which we call a rose      By any other name would smell as sweet;”

— William Shakespeare

“They'll twist your nose until it smells death in a bed of roses.”

— Ottessa Moshfegh

“A rose does not lose its beautiful scent because it grew in dirt.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“A rose does not answer its enemies with words, but with beauty.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“A rose is a rose is a rose.”

— Gertrude Stein

“Don’t rub your nose with roses; you may lose sight of the thorns”

— Bhuwan Thapaliya

“What's in a name?" asked Miss Forcible. "That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”

— Neil Gaiman

“A rose does not diminish in beauty because it has thorns.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Any nose may ravage with impunity a rose.

— Robert Browning

I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe…

— Anonymous

“If roses were not special weeds would not envy them.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo