Monarch of the Glen (TV Series)

Episode #1.2 (2000)

Richard Briers: Hector MacDonald

Quotes 

• Lexie : [takes away Hector's plate]  Enjoy that, did you, Hector?

  Hector : It smells of wet dog.

  Lexie : And I love you too.

• [first lines] 

  Hector : [takes letter]  Aah! Thank you, Lexie.

  Archie : Anything for me?

  Hector : I fear not.

  Archie : What about that? It's from the bank, look.

  Hector : Yes, but it's addressed to me. See: Hector N. Macdonald, Esquire.

  Archie : [reching for it]  It must be estated business.

  Hector : I had hoped the new world order would allow a chap to open his own correspondence.

• Hector : Where would we be if Bonnie Prince Charlie suddenly started winning the Battle of Culloden?

  Kilwillie : Living in a country that had been independent for two and a half centuries, probably.

  Hector : What an appalling thought.