“What’s in a name” is one of the most quoted lines in English language. Whenever someone says anything about a name, or makes a big deal of it, we non-chalantly quote these words.
Very few of us, however, know from where this popular quote has been taken. And the irony is, the English Drama, from which it is taken, is also one of the most popular dramas of English Literature. And if that wasn’t for you to guess, its author is the biggest author of English.
Okay, to reveal it for those who still have not got it, the line is a sentence from William Shakespeare’s Drama, Romeo and Juliet.
The whole line goes thus:
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose. By any other name would smell as sweet."
The lines were said by Romeo to Juliet in the play.