Romantic in anticipation of Valentine's Day

News cover Romantic in  anticipation of Valentine's Day
13 Feb 2011 21:37:43 A poll of 2,000 adults commissioned by Warner Home Video to mark the DVD release of the romantic comedy "Going the Distance" showed 20 percent of respondents chose the line: "whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
Fictional character Catherine Earnshaw's comment on her love for Heathcliff was followed by Winnie-The-Pooh, the fictional bear created by English writer AA Milne: "If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus one day, so I never have to live without you."
England's most famous playwright, William Shakespeare, came third with a line from his play about star-crossed lovers "Romeo and Juliet": "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east and Juliet is the sun."
A list of quotes and their ranking by respondents follows:
1." Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same" - Emily Bronte
2. "If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you" - A A Milne
3."But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east and Juliet is the sun" - Shakespeare "Romeo and Juliet"
4. "He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong" - W.H. Auden
5. "You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams" - Dr. Seuss
6." When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots are become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part" - "Captain Corelli's Mandolin"
7. "Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be" - Robert Browning
8."For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow" - Rosemonde Gerard
9. "But to see her was to love her, love but her, and love her forever" - Robert Burns
10. "I hope before long to press you in my arms and shall shower on you a million burning kisses as under the Equator" - Napoleon Bonaparte's 1796 dispatch to wife Josephine.
 

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