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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 Burn
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
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。”——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
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