The Little Mermaid Quotes

Ariel: [after rescuing the Prince] Is he dead?
Scuttle: It's hard to say.
[Place's his ear to Eric's foot]
Scuttle: Oh I can't make out a heartbeat.
Ariel: No look, he's breathing. He's so beautiful.
Ariel: [singing] What would i give to live where you are/ What would I pay to

stay here beside you/ what would I do to see you smiling at me/ Where would we walk/ where would we run/ If we could stay all day in the sun/ Just you and me/ and I could be/ part of your world
Grimsby: [Calling Out] Eric. Eric
[the approaching Grimsby and Max's barking send a startled Ariel back into the ocean]
Grimsby: [Helping Eric to his

feet] Oh, you really delight in these sadistic strain on my blood pressure don't you.
Prince Eric: A girl, rescued me. She was singing. She had the most beautiful voice.
Grimsby: Ah Eric, I think you swallowed a bit to much sea-water. Off we go. Come along Max.
Sebastian: [after watching the unfolding events] We just gonna

forget the whole thing ever happened. The Sea-King will never know. You won't tell him.
Flounder: [Nods in agreement]
Sebastian: I won't tell him. I will stay in one piece.
[Ariel has possitioned herself on top of a rock watching Eric longingly]
Ariel: [sung] I don't know when/ I don't know how/ But I know something's

starting right now/ Watch and you'll see/ Someday I'll be/ Part of Your World

Sebastian: The newt play the flute / The carp play the harp / The plaice play the bass / And they soundin' sharp / The bass play the brass / The chub play the tub / The fluke is the duke of soul.
Fluke: Yeah!
Sebastian: The ray he can play / The ling's on the strings / The trout's rocking out / The blackfish she sings / The smelt and the sprat / They

know where it's at / And oh, that blowfish blow! Ha ha!

[Ariel's turned herself into a human]
Sebastian: Just look at her! On legs! On human legs!
[shudders]
Sebastian: My nerves are shot! This is a catastrophe! What would her father say? I'll tell you what her father'd say. He'd say he's gonna kill himself a crab! That's what her father'd say! I'm gonna march myself straight home right now...

[Ariel scoops him up and starts shaking her head frantically]
Sebastian: ...and don't you shake your head at me, young lady! Maybe there's still time. If we could get that witch to give you back your voice, you could go home with all the normal fish and just be...
[Ariel's face falls]
Sebastian: [slowly] Just be... just be miserable for the

rest of your life.
[sighs, defeated]
Sebastian: Alright, alright. I'll try to help you find that prince.
[Ariel, overjoyed, kisses Sebastian and puts him on a rock]
Sebastian: What a softshell I'm turning out to be.

Ursula: Yes, hurry home, princess. We wouldn't want to miss old Daddy's celebration, now, would we? Huh! Celebration indeed.
[chuckles sarcastically]
Ursula: Bah! In my day, we had fantastical feasts when I lived in the palace. And now, look at me - wasted away to practically nothing - banished, and exiled, and practically starving, while he and his

flimsy fish-folk celebrate. Well, I'll give 'em something to celebrate soon enough. Flotsam! Jetsam! I want you to keep an extra close watch on this pretty little daughter of his. She may be the key to Triton's undoing...

Sebastian: Ariel, listen to me. The human world is a mess. Life under the sea is better than anything they got up there.
[singing]
Sebastian: The seaweed is always greener / In somebody else's lake / You dream about going up there / But that is a big mistake / Just look at the world around you / Right here on the ocean floor / Such wonderful things

around you / What more is you lookin' for? / Under the sea / Under the sea / Darlin', it's better / Down where it's wetter / Take it from me / Up on the shore they work all day / Out in the sun they slave away / While we devotin' / Full time to floating / Under the sea!

Triton: I just don't know what we're going to do with you, young lady.
Ariel: Daddy, I'm sorry, I just forgot, I...
Triton: As a result of your careless behavior...
Sebastian: Careless and reckless behavior!
Triton: The entire celebration was, er...
Sebastian:

Well, it was ruined! That's all, completely destroyed! This concert was to be the pinnacle of my distinguished career. Now thanks to you, I am the laughingstock of the entire kingdom!
Flounder: But it wasn't her fault! Ah well first, ahh, this shark chased us yeah yeah! And we tried to but we couldn't and then grr and and we whoa! Ah, and then we were safe. But then this

seagull came, and it was this is this, and that is that, and.
Triton: Seagull?
[Flounder gasps and hides in Ariel's hair as she gives him a dirty look]
Triton: What? Oh you went up to the surface again, didn't you? Didn't you?
Ariel: Nothing happened.
Triton: Ariel, How many times must we go

through this? You could've been seen by one of those barbarians by by one of those humans!
Ariel: Daddy, they're not barbarians!
Triton: They're dangerous; do you think I would want to see my youngest daughter snared by some fish eater's hook?
Ariel: I'm sixteen years old. I'm not a child.
Triton: Don't

you take that tone of voice with me, young lady. As long as you live under my ocean, you'll obey my rules!
Ariel: But if you would just listen!
Triton: Not another word! And I am never, never to hear of you going to the surface again. Is that clear?
[Ariel leaves, crying]

Sebastian: Jeez, mon! I'm surrounded by amateurs!
[Sebastian jumps in the water]
Sebastian: You want something done, you've got to do it yourself.
[Sebastian picks a blade of underwater grass and returns to the surface where some turtles are swimming by]
Sebastian: [speaking in a low, seductive voice] First, we've got

to create... the mood.
[transitioning from speech to song]
Sebastian: Percussion. Strings. Winds. Words.
[singing "Kiss the Girl"]
Sebastian: There you see her / Sitting there across the way / She don't got a lot to say / But there's something about her / And you don't know why / But you're dying to try / You wanna kiss the girl.

Ariel: [regarding King Triton, as Sebastian watches, unobserved] If only I could make him understand. I just don't see things the way he does. I just don't see how a world that makes such wonderful things could be bad.
[She begins singing "Part of Your World."]
Ariel: Look at this stuff, isn't it neat? / Wouldn't ya think my collection's complete

Wouldn't you think I'm the girl / Girl who has everything / Look at this trove, treasures untold / How many wonders can one cavern hold? / Looking around you'd think / Sure, she's got everything / I've got gadgets and gizmos aplenty / I have whoozits and whatzis galore / You want thingamabobs? I've got twenty / But who cares? No big deal / I want more.

Scuttle: [Flying blissfully close to the wedding barge, as he hums the Wedding March]
Vanessa: [singing in Ariel's Voice, to the tune of "Poor Unfortunate Souls"] What a lovely little bride I'll make/ My dear I'll look divine.
Vanessa: [Chuckles, then continues Singing] Things are working out according/ To my ultimate design

Scuttle: [Watching the entire scene gulps]
Vanessa: [singing] Soon I'll have that little mermaid/ And the ocean will be mine!
Vanessa: [laughing into the mirror, whose reflection reveals she is indeed Ursula]
Scuttle: [Gasps] The Sea Witch! Oh no. She's gonna. I gotta.
[In his haste flys into the window

by mistake]
Scuttle: Ariel!

Triton: [confronts Ariel in her grotto] I consider myself a reasonable merman. I set certain rules, and I expect those rules to be obeyed!
Ariel: But Dad, I...
Triton: [interrupts] Is it true you rescued a human from drowning?
Ariel: Daddy, I had to.
Triton: Contact between the human

world and the mer world is strictly forbidden! Ariel, you know that! Everyone knows that!
Ariel: He would have died!
Triton: [coldly] One less human to worry about!
Ariel: [frustrated] You don't even know him!
Triton: Know him? I don't have to know him! They're all the same! Spineless, savage,

harpooning fish eaters, incapable of any feeling!
Ariel: Daddy, I love him!
[Ariel gasps, realizing she accidentally slipped the truth]
Triton: [shocked] No! Have you lost your senses completely? He's a human! You're a mermaid!
Ariel: I don't care!
Triton: So help me, Ariel, I am going to get

through to you! And if this is the only way, so be it!
[He proceeds to destroy Ariel's collection of human objects with his trident]

Ursula: Well, angelfish, the solution to your problem is simple. The only way to get what you want is to become a human yourself.
Ariel: Can you do that?
[this gives Ursula an evil idea, but she pretends to be kind]
Ursula: [politely] My dear, sweet child... that's what I do! It's what I live for, to help unfortunate merfolk,

like yourself. Poor souls with no one else to turn to.

Ariel: But without my voice, how can I.
Ursula: You'll have your looks. Your pretty face and don't underestimate the importance of "body language." Ha!
[singing]
Ursula: The men up there don't like a lot of blabber / They think a girl who gossips is a bore / Yes, on land it's much prefered / for ladies not to say a word

After all, dear, what is idle prattle for? / Come on, they're not all that impressed with conversation / True gentlemen avoid it when they can / But they dote and swoon and fawn / On a lady who's withdrawn / It's she who holds her tongue who gets her man.

[Eric is Playing a Melancholic rendition of 'Part of Your World' on his flute as Grimsby aproaches]
Grimsby: Eric, if I may say, far better than any dream girl is one of flesh and blood. One warm, and caring, and right before your eyes.
[Grimsby motions up towards Ariel's bedroom window and leaves. A smile cracks Eric's face, and in a moment of realization Eric

throws his Flute to the see and leaves to speak to his lovely young friend, when he hears a familiar voice singing and see's a beautiful young woman walking the beach. The woman continues to sing and places the Prince under a sort of trance]

Ursula: [watching Flotsam and Jetsam knock the boat with Ariel and Eric in it about to kiss] Nice work boys. That was a close one too close! The little tramp!
[sighs]
Ursula: Well, she's better than I thought. At this rate, he'll be kissing her by sunset for sure!
[smashes through her potions]
Ursula: Well, it's time

Ursula took matters into her own tentacles.
[throws a bottle with a butterfly in it, into her cauldron]
Ursula: Triton's daughter will be mine and then I'll make him writhe. I'll see him wriggle like a worm on a hook!
[laughs, transforming into Vanessa]