The Little Mermaid * Quotes

"Hm. Teenagers. They think they know everything. You give them an inch, they swim all over you."

Sebastian: "Are you sure about this?"
Scuttle: "Have I ever been wrong? I mean when it's important!"

"So much for true love!"

"Oh, no, no, no, no, no. I can't stand it! It's too easy! The child is in love with a human. And not just any human. A prince! ... [laughs] ... Her daddy'll love that. King Triton's headstrong, lovesick girl would make a charming addition to my little garden."

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 anymore."
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?"

Triton: "I consider myself a reasonable merman. I set certain rules, and I expect those rules to be obeyed."
Ariel: "But Daddy!"
Triton: "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: "One less human to worry about!"
Ariel: "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 of."
Ariel: "Daddy, I love him!"
[gasps]"
Triton: "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!"

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?"
Ursula: "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."