Ah, the rose, the flower most popular with playwrights and poets. Who said, “Any nose may ravage with impunity a rose”?
A) Gertrude Stein B) Robert Browning ü C) Simon Cowell D) William Shakespeare
The quote is from Browning’s poem, Sordello. Shakespeare famously said, “A rose by any name would smell as sweet”, and Stein said, “A rose is a rose is a rose”. As far as we know, Cowell hasn’t said anything memorable about roses.