Top 38 By Any Other Name Quotes

#1. That which we call a snob by any other name would still be snobbish.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#2. [M]ore wars have been waged, more people killed, and more evil perpetrated in the name of religion than by any other institutional force in human history. The sad truth continues in our present day.

Charles Kimball

#3. Let us recognize that we can no longer tolerate violent oppression of women in the name of religion and culture any more than we would tolerate violent oppression espoused by any other bully in the name of a twisted rationale.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#4. Decades have a delusive edge to them. They are not, of course, really periods at all, except as any other ten years may be. But we, looking at them, are caught by the different name each bears, and give them different attributes, and tie labels on them, as if they were flowers in a border.

Rose Macaulay

#5. Silence by any other name is called shame.

Shannon L. Alder

#6. A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but a woman called by a devaluing name will only be weakened by the misnomer.

Maya Angelou

#7. A cat, by any other name, is still a sneaky little furball that barfs on the furniture.

Chris Rock

#8. Stressed by any other name is fear.

Shannon L. Alder

#9. A hamburger by any other name costs twice as much.

Evan Esar

#10. He has forbidden you only carrion, blood, and the flesh of swine; also any flesh that is consecrated other than in the name of God. But for one who is driven by necessity, neither craving nor transgressing, it is no sin. For God is forgiving and merciful.

Anonymous

#11. A chrysanthemum by any other name would be easier to spell.

William J. Johnston

#12. Empathy is the poor man's cocaine, and love is just a chemical by any other name

Eyedea

#13. There are all these people here I don't know by sight or by name. And we pass alongside each other and don't have any connection. And they don't know me and I don't know them. And now I'm leaving town and there are all these people I will never know.

Carson McCullers

#14. Dad's pink slips come in the form of bullets to the brain

J.M. Darhower

#15. 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.

Alexander Henry

#16. Faeces by any other name would smell as gross

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#17. A rose by any other name is probably a rose with attitude.

Carolyn V. Hamilton

#18. Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it.

William Laud

#19. One function of the intellect is to catalog. But cataloging doesn't change anything. If we call it a rose, or by any other name, it still smells as sweet. The name doesn't really matter. It is convenient for us.

Frederick Lenz

#20. A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME WILL SMELL AS SWEET. BUT IT DOES NOT FOLLOW THAT WHATEVER WE CHOOSE TO CALL A ROSE WILL POSSESS THE ROSE'S FRAGRANCE.

B. B. Warfield

#21. Evil is evil, and no good comes of calling it by any other name.

Glenn Beck

#22. 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 it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.

L.M. Montgomery

#23. A skunk by any other name still stinks.

W. A. Criswell

#24. A rose will smell as sweet by any other name, but it must be the rose of liberty that I want and not the artificial product.

Mahatma Gandhi

#25. What's in a name, anyway? That which we call a nose by any other name would still smell.

Reduced Shakespeare Company

#26. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but would not cost half as much during the winter months.

George Ade

#27. Addiction by any other name is love.

Shannon L. Alder

#28. 'A Rogue by Any Other Name' is the first book in the 'Rules of Scoundrels' series, centered on a legendary pre-Victorian casino and her four scandalous aristocratic owners.

Sarah MacLean

#29. The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.

Russell Lynes

#30. altruism by any other name is still altruism, fueled by many different motivations.

Andrew E. Kaufman

#31. What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

William Shakespeare

#32. A rose by any other name Would get the blame For being what it is
The colour of a kiss, The shadow of a flame. A rose may earn another name, So call it love; So call it love I will, And love is like the sea, Which changes constantly, And yet is still The same.

Tanith Lee

#33. I have often wondered and even laughed at those who fancied that everything had been so consummately and absolutely investigated by an Aristotle or a Galen or some other mighty name, that nothing could by any possibility be added to their knowledge.

William Harvey

#34. A rose by any other name
Would never, never smell the same
And cunning is the nose that knows
An onion that's been called a rose.

Wendell Johnson

#35. A rose by any other name would likely be "deadly thornbearing assault vegetation.

Robert Bullock

#36. A girl by any other name still smells as sweet, and, baby, you sure do smell good.

M.K. Schiller

#37. I snipped off the stem and took a knee.
"For you, my love. A rose by any other name would still smell as sweet as your feet."
Jules smacked me on the back of the head.

B. Justin Shier

#38. Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily, it's usually a source of amusement rather than frustration. A flashlight by any other name is still a torch. My personal favourite is 'fairy lights,' which we boringly refer to as 'Christmas lights.'

Sloane Crosley

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