爱情名句大排行 莎翁不敌勃朗特

       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."

       Britons have chosen a line from Emily Bronte's novel "Wuthering Heights" as the most romantic in English literature -- just in time for Valentine's Day.

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-crossedlovers "Romeo and Juliet": "But soft! What light through yonderwindow 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.

在情人节来临之际，英国人认为英国文学中最浪漫的情话来自艾米莉 勃朗特的小说《呼啸山庄》。

这项涵盖了2000名成人的调查是由华纳家庭录影公司开展的，目的是为了纪念爱情喜剧《远距离爱情》发行DVD版本。调查显示，20%的应答者选择了这句话：“不论我们的灵魂是什么做成的，他的和我的是一模一样的。”

这是小说中的人物凯瑟琳 恩肖在诉说她对希思克利夫的爱意。紧随其后的是英国作家A A 米尔恩创作的卡通人物小熊维尼说的话：“假如你的寿命是100年，那我希望自己活到100岁的前一天，因为那样我的生命中每天都有你。”

英国最著名的剧作家威廉 莎士比亚的戏剧《罗密欧与朱丽叶》中的这句话排在第三位：“嘘！那边窗户里亮起的是什么光？哦，那是东方，朱丽叶就是太阳！”《罗密欧与朱丽叶》讲述的一对苦命恋人的故事。

以下是应答者评选出的爱情名句排行榜：

1.“不论我们的灵魂是什么做成的，他的和我的是一模一样的。”——艾米莉 勃朗特

2.“假如你的寿命是100年，那我希望自己活到100岁的前一天，因为那样我的生命中每天都有你。”——A A 米尔恩

3.“嘘！那边窗户里亮起的是什么光？哦，那是东方，朱丽叶就是太阳！”——莎士比亚，《罗密欧与朱丽叶》

4.“他是我的南北，我的西东。是我作息的意义。是我的日夜，欢唱谈话的内容。我以为爱会永恒不朽……我错了。”——W H 奥登

5.“当你终于因为现实比梦境更美而无法入睡时，你恋爱了。”——苏斯博士

6.“爱情是一种暂时的疯狂。它像地震一样爆发，然后又平息。而当它平息时，你得做出一个判断。你得弄清楚你同他是否已经盘根错节地成为一体，以至无法分开。”——《柯莱利上尉的曼陀林》

7.“和我一起慢慢变老吧！最好的日子还在后头。”——罗伯特 布朗宁

8.“你知道吗？我每天都爱你更多。今天爱的比昨天多，明天爱的比今天多。”——罗丝蒙德 杰拉德

9.“谁见她就会爱她，谁爱她就会永远爱她。”——罗伯特 彭斯

10.“希望不久我将把你紧紧地搂在怀中，吻你亿万次，像在赤道下面那样炽烈的吻。”——拿破仑 波拿巴1796年发给妻子约瑟芬的快信

Vocabulary:

star-crossed: not able to be happy because of bad luck or fate（命运乖蹇的；不幸的）

yonder: that is over there; that you can see over there（那里的；那边的）