Thursday, February 10, 2011

“Bronte beats Shakespeare for romantic lines (Reuters)”

“Bronte beats Shakespeare for romantic lines (Reuters)”

Bronte beats Shakespeare for romantic lines (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 09:15 AM PST

LONDON (Reuters Life!) – 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, 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 the star-crossed lovers in "Romeo and Juliet": "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east

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