Top 100 Mermaid Quotes
#1. My shirt and my hat always say 'World Champion' in some language. English, Spanish, Chinese, 'Star Wars' language, which is also known as Aurebesh, mermaid language.
Judah Friedlander
#2. I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water, I think I'm a Mermaid or I was a mermaid.
The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective ... it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you've been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.
Beyonce Knowles
#3. I thought a mermaid lived in my shower drain, and I used to call her Sarah and talk to her.
Tarryn Fisher
#4. I just like The Little Mermaid cartoon. Say what you want. I have a fish tank, it's a long story. I have a fascination with the ocean, and you put a hot chick in there, it just adds more to it! I liked The Little Mermaid. It's a cool movie. It's one of those I watch over and over again.
Gabriel Iglesias
#5. Thoughts that found a maze of mermaid hair
Tangling in the tide's green fall
Now fold their wings like bats and disappear
Into the attic of the skull.
Sylvia Plath
#6. There are seven mermaid princesses and seven pearls. The reason I sing is to convey my love. The reason the pearl sparkels is to brighten the sea. And so, I can never forget...the sound of the waves or the warmth of the sea.
Pink Hanamori
#7. Seated atop the creature was a mermaid. She carried a crossbow. A sword hung from her hip. Her coppery hair, cut short, was angled over her forehead and cheekbones. Her green eyes blazed with fury.
'Go, Sera!' Becca shouted. 'Take back your throne!
Jennifer Donnelly
#9. I stared at him. You're a bat, Rudi! She's a mermaid. What were you thinking?
Charles Stross
#10. fiction:
the ocean
i dive
headfirst
into
when i
can
no longer
breathe
in
reality.
- a mermaid escapist II.
Amanda Lovelace
#11. I could see the combinations and permutations flutter through their minds. This was Boulder. It could easily be two moms. Two dads. A dad, a mom, and an orangutan. Three Amish hipsters and a transgendered Aboriginal mermaid.
Bill Konigsberg
#12. They were quiet a moment longer, both staring at the mermaid and her weird water-spouting nipples. Neither moved.
Mollie knew why she didn't want the moment to end. But why was he still here?
Lauren Layne
#13. Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums ... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to The Little Mermaid, no work of the imagination is truly apolitical, because the world and our hopes for it are always part of our stories.
John Green
#14. Frankie was so mad that she threw my journal into the bottom of the ocean where it is banished for all eternity with a lovesick mermaid who cries out pieces of sea glass. Are you going to eat that bacon?
Sarah Ockler
#15. A shark without teeth is just a mermaid.
Paul Levine
#16. I've known Hillary, and her husband Bill, for more than half of my life. I remember her playing mermaid in the pool with our youngest daughter Sally for hours on family vacations.
Terry McAuliffe
#17. You're a miracle," he breathed.
"You're a miracle," the mermaid echoed, before it leaned up and carefully, almost delicately, ripped away his throat.
Mira Grant
#19. Six pull-tabs lay in the ashtray like scales from a mermaid.
Haruki Murakami
#20. Thus the little mermaid learned her world's greatest paradox: that their currency was beauty, and their coin was body parts.
Esther Dalseno
#21. The other day when we were reading The Little Mermaid again, at the part where it says that only human souls can go up to heaven and mermaids can't, you (Daria) said, 'See that's like Papa. He lives in heaven. With the angels'
Ekaterina Gordeeva
#22. She said to me, "I don't know what life is anymore, it seems mean to me. I always wanted to be a mermaid but I never saw the sea.
Renee Thebeau
#23. She was like a mermaid enrapturing me the sailor with all her charms!
Avijeet Das
#24. Like a mermaid rising from an ocean of paper, the girl emerged across the room.
Brian Selznick
#25. Now I feel bad," Diehl said. "Like we're about to nuke Aquaman. Or the Little Mermaid. ... "
"Pretend they're Gungans," Cruz suggested. "And that we get to nuke Jar Jar.
Ernest Cline
#26. Be still, for you may the hauntingly familiar melody of a mermaid.
Heather McLaren
#27. Trial Is Part of the Journey For a moment, think back about your favorite fairy tale. In that story the main character may be a princess or a peasant; she might be a mermaid or a milkmaid, a ruler or a servant. You will find one thing all have in common: they must overcome adversity.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#28. And unless I'm remembering it wrong, mermaids don't sing and sirens don't swim."
"Ariel sang in 'The Little Mermaid'," Corey said.
Sam came over to join us. "Do I even want to know why you remember her name?
Kelley Armstrong
#29. ...either I'm losing my mind, or I saw mermaids." --Alec Costner, The Mermaid Coast
Robert Woolcott
#30. Sea-foam
And coral! Oh, I'll
Climb the great pasture rocks
And dream me mermaid in the sun's
Gold flood.
Adelaide Crapsey
#31. For the first time in maybe my whole life, I feel dangerous and magical, like a dragon or a mermaid. A fury, standing there with my half-gone grape slush and my jaw clenched, ready for whatever comes next.
Brenna Yovanoff
#32. He fell
from the sinking ship
to the roiling sea
of uncertainty,
into the hands
of the one mermaid
who knew exactly
how to save him.
Kirk Diedrich
#33. Oh, a mermaid's comb. Heavy stuff, but safe enough as long as you don't use it around water. Or a busy highway. You're not planning to lure any young men to their doom, are you?
How embarrassing! I shook my head, blushing.
Polly Shulman
#34. So how do you know she was a mermaid if you didn't see her bottom half?
Jonathan Dunne
#35. ... She was as beautiful and lost as a landlocked mermaid.
Emma Straub
#36. Is this the sexy escort I ordered?" Sabin asks immediately. "I don't want to hear any bitching about the tree-house situation, okay? It's very trendy right now. And you better be bringing the mermaid outfit I requested, or this whole thing is off. Also, I'll be paying you from my jar of pennies.
Jessica Park
#37. I've got a swimming pool and I pretend to be like a mermaid, like in the middle of the night. It kind of de-stresses me.
Rebel Wilson
#38. All of which Flora said with so much headlong vehemence as if she really believed it. There is not much doubt that when she worked herself into full mermaid condition, she did actually believe whatever she said in it.
Charles Dickens
#39. The beer gave Penn a headache immediately; she blinked like a mermaid struck by sunshine.
Genie Frisbee
#40. I was doing a Broadway musical called 'Smile' with Howard Ashman and Marvin Hamlisch in 1984/5 when it abruptly closed. Howard was in the middle of pre-production for 'The Little Mermaid,' so he kindly invited all the girls in our cast to audition for the film.
Jodi Benson
#41. In London, the home of the quick deal is that outer ring of the seven circles of hell, Tottenham Court Road, where, as a rule, finding something with an advertised price is as likely as spotting a mermaid under Vauxhall Bridge.
David Hewson
#42. The turquoise tide shimmered in shades of mermaid tails against the alabaster shore. The
Karen Marie Moning
#43. The sky was powdered with diamond dust and the river hid its secrets under a slick black sheets, broken here and there with a silvery flash that could have been a fish's tail-or a mermaid's.
Cassandra Clare
#44. I think of Ariel, my local neighborhood mermaid, how she only had twenty-four hours to turn her life around ...
Shannon Celebi
#45. I inhaled a lungful and found my insides moon-walking. She smelt oceanic, Like a mermaid.
Pawan Jangid
#46. My mother wanted to name me Jackie or Jacqueline but she got to name my sister and my brother, so my dad and my brother insisted on naming me. And they were big fans of 'The Little Mermaid.'
Ariel Winter
#47. O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note,
to drown me in thy sister's flood of tears.
William Shakespeare
#48. Abby was laughing and panting for breath, her eyes bright, her face beaming under the sun. She spilled across the shore at my feet, her blond hair tangled and wet, clothes stuck to her body. She was the sexiest mermaid I'd ever seen.
Ophelia London
#49. I have a lot of mermaid stuff. I did start collecting a lot before I had children because I didn't know if I would have a boy or a girl. So I saved everything.
Jodi Benson
#50. While not my personal favorite of the Disney princess films, 'The Little Mermaid' wins hands-down in my book for best Disney adaptation. Little girls waited for more than 150 years for Hans Christian Andersen's 'The Little Mermaid' to have a happy ending. Walt Disney finally gave it to her.
Alethea Kontis
#51. The first rule of cannibal mermaid fight club is don't talk about cannibal mermaid fight club.
Kali Wallace
#52. I want to be Ursula in 'The Little Mermaid.'
Lily James
#53. She tried to speak; her mouth opened, once, twice, silent, a mermaid washed ashore.
Gillian Flynn
#54. I wonder if people would learn from the Little Mermaid's heartbreak when she dies at the end of her real story. I
Chris Colfer
#55. I sat upon a promontory,
And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back,
Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath,
That the rude sea grew civil at her song;
And certain stars shot madly from their spheres,
To hear the sea-maid's music.
William Shakespeare
#56. In some ways, 'The Little Mermaid' was old-fashioned. Rendered in the hand-drawn style, it was the last Disney animated feature to use cels and Xeroxing. Pixar and its CGI imitators soon made that rigorous process obsolete.
Richard Corliss
#57. I began to swim, an armless silver mermaid, using only my hips to generate motion, until finally my ass scraped against the lake's mucky bottom. I turned then and used my hips and waist to roll three times, until I came ashore near a ratty green towel. They'd left me a towel. How thoughtful.
John Green
#58. The sea waves stirred before me
they dashed against the rocks
Like a mermaid rising from its depths
curled white sea foam were her locks ...
Giselle V. Steele
#59. Disneyland's a mess. And it's not just the measles. Donald Duck has bird flu. Pocahontas has small pox. The Little Mermaid has crabs. And the Monorail? Mono.
Bill Maher
#60. To the untrained (human) eye, Thalassinia looks like an expanse of coral reefs and volcanic formations. There are no straight lines or geometric shapes to give away the fact that the structures are actually mermade. (Get it? Mermade. Like mermaid, but ... oh, never mind.)
Tera Lynn Childs
#61. So down and down and down and down
And down and down we go
Hurry my darling we mustn't be late
For the show
Neptune champion games to an aqua
World so very dear
Right this way smiles a mermaid
I can hear Atlantis full of cheer.
Jimi Hendrix
#62. Everybody always wants to be a mermaid
Beth Mayall
#63. I think I was a mermaid and I used to swim the shores or Hawaii and used to pop up and see coconuts and pineapples everywhere.
Ella Henderson
#64. For 82 minutes, 'The Little Mermaid' reclaims the movie house as a dream palace and the big screen as a window into enchantment. Live-action filmmakers, see this and try to top it. Go on and try.
Richard Corliss
#65. What do you have there?"
Mouse perked up at her interest. "I'm making ski masks to have on hand for bank robberies. Last night I finished the fingerless mermaid gloves for Eve. She likes her fingers free for gunplay."
Mouse's needles clicked together in a peaceful rhythm.
Debra Anastasia
#66. The tail of Emily Windsnapeveryone has a secret . mines alittle different. i figured out i am a mermaid.
Liz Kessler
#67. I left Mermaid's Bar and Grill about 2:00 am, and fishtailed out of the parking lot.
Jarod Kintz
#68. I feel as if I am the eye of my own storm, still, like the mermaid, at the center of my own chaos.
Raffaella Barker
#69. I don't wanna go. I want to defile the prestigious Plaza Hotel by having you ride me like a slutty mermaid in the bathtub.
Emma Chase
#70. I am not Undine for Undine or the Little Mermaid sold her glory for feet. Undine (or the Little Mermaid) couldn't speak after she sold her glory. I will not sell my glory.
H.D.
#71. She would stay there, flying across the sea like a mermaid with wings, until the end.
Natalia Marx
#72. I think every little girl's dream is to be a mermaid or to see a mermaid. [When I was younger] I would go to the beach and cover myself in the sand. People from different cultures and centuries have the same idea of what mermaids are ... so that's maybe a cool thing to think about.
Emma Roberts
#73. She is a mermaid, but approach her with caution- her mind swims at a depth that most would drown it.
Unknown
#74. The moral dilemma that the little mermaid must confront - that she can only live by killing the one she loves - is the ethical choice at the heart of love. The other person, their identity and feelings, can be sacrificed for our pleasure.
Rod Dubey
#75. And she wanted him. And anyway, once a mermaid saved a man, wasn't he destined to be her true love, with weddings on ships or private islands and happily-ever-afters filled with music and sparkles and talking fish?
Kerry Adrienne
#76. I WAS a mermaid in my past-life! I definitely was. I don't know why I'm obsessed with them that much, which is why I think that somehow in my past-life I must have just lived underwater or something. Maybe I was a fish or a dolphin, but I do believe in mermaids.
Ella Henderson
#77. The first time she'd lured her ex to a restaurant it had been all she could do to snap him out of the reverie he entered, only for him to emerge spouting nonsense about how she was a princess, a goddess, even a fucking mermaid one time he called her.
Ali Shaw
#78. A mermaid found a swimming lad,
Picked him up for her own,
Pressed her body to his body,
Laughed; and plunging down
Forgot in cruel happiness
That even lovers drown.
W.B.Yeats
#79. He was charmed out of all reason as he watched her, this sandy, disheveled, storytelling mermaid, who seemed already to belong to him and yet wanted nothing to do with him. His heart worked in strange rhythms, as if it were struggling to adjust to a brand new metronome. What was happening to him?
Lisa Kleypas
#80. The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.
Mark Twain
#81. Managing a league club is like making love to a mermaid ... you should always be aiming for a top half finish
Ian Holloway
#83. I was all in gold sequins for Million Dollar Mermaid, 50 feet in the air.
Esther Williams
#84. Name a mer-hero, and we have trained him or her!" "Oh, sure," Leo said. "Like ... um, the Little Mermaid?" Aphros frowned. "Who? No! Like Triton, Glaucus, Weissmuller, and Bill!
Rick Riordan
#85. The miserable think that what they have is never enough. Like the Little Mermaid, who owned no more than twenty thingamabobs, they say, "But who cares, no big deal, I want MORE." (How could you be miserable with twenty thingamabobs?)
John Bytheway
#86. Hopefully, anyone who saw a woman riding a screaming mermaid in a wheelchair down Leavenworth at a quarter to five in the morning would just think they'd had too much to drink.
Seanan McGuire
#87. Petite and with a rounded figure exaggerated by her tight dress, she was a beautiful mermaid swimming through the crowded street, and Gil felt like a petrified little fish in front of a shark. Maybe
Mala Spina
#88. She believes that I love her!" cried the King. "What a fatal mistake! What is to be done to undeceive her?" "You know best," answered the Mermaid, smiling kindly at him. "When people are as much in love with one another as you two are, they don't need advice from anyone else.
Andrew Lang
#89. I just wasn't anticipating Goblin assassins with crossbows pushing me into a situation where the only viable exit involved riding a mermaid's wheelchair into the marina.
Sometimes I think my life is too complicated.
Seanan McGuire
#90. A mermaid has not an immortal soul, nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being. On the power of another hangs her eternal destiny.
Hans Christian Andersen
#91. With "poets dead and gone" as Keats says in "Mermaid Tavern" they are alive and talking to us and us to them.
Gregory Orr
#92. Eating a raw oyster is like french kissing a mermaid.
Tom Robbins
#93. Call me a proud American, if you want, but I truly believe that no other nation on Earth possesses the capabilities to put on a more powerful display of underwater mermaid patriotism.
Dave Barry
#94. Kiss the girl, already." Johnson begins to sing. Badly. A cheesy tot hits his cheek, and he chucks a wing at Diaz in retaliation. It goes wide. "Isn't that the song the little crab sings in The Lion King?" Dex asks. "It's The Little Mermaid. And stop playing like you don't know.
Kristen Callihan
#95. She had on a spangled top that sparkled like fish scales. Her hair was very yellow. She looked like a mermaid in a bad mood.
(p. 82 RAYMIE NIGHTINGALE)
Kate DiCamillo
#97. You don't know what it is to live and laugh and love and run a man through! You've never tasted salty air on your tongue or waved heartily at a mermaid!
Gideon Defoe
#98. Last night at Bingo, Sylvia won the last prize. 'What am I going to do with a mermaid?"
"Learn to swim in the murkiest water, reinvent yourself," the mermaid said #149
Monique Duval
#99. All this to say of course Gallo wants to get into your Little Mermaid panties. And if you don't get that, you're dumber than I ever thought, which gives me such a headache to even contemplate. The massive amount of your dumbness. It hurts me,' he whined.
MaryJanice Davidson
#100. The object Rusty found on Black Ridge looked so much like his Apple TV addon that he at first thought it actually was one ... only modified, of course, so it could hold an entire town prisoner as well as broadcast The Little Mermaid to your television via Wi-Fi and in HD.
Stephen King
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