In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Sweeter than the perfume of roses is a reputation for a kind, charitable, unselfish nature; a ready disposition to do to others any good turn in your power.
It may be that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,' but I should be loath to see a rose on a maiden's breast substituted by a flower, however beautiful and fragrant it might be, that is went by the name of the skunk lily.
Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love - the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.
Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.
It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.
The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms.
If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
Loveliest of lovely things are they on earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower.