Monarch of the Glen (TV Series)

Episode #2.4 (2001)

Richard Briers: Hector MacDonald

Quotes 

• Hector MacDonald : At least you understand responsibility. Loyalty. Duty.

  [the camera moves and we see he is talking to his dogs] 

• Hector : Good Lord, by the time I was thirty, I had three children.

  Molly : I know; I was there.

• Archie : Oh, so that's what this is about: not my future bride, but your future grandchild.

  Hector : You have a responsibility to your lineage.

  Archie : Stay out of my private life, do you hear? If you don't, I'll... I'll... I'll have the snip.

  Hector : Snip?

  Archie : I will have my lineage cut off!

• Hector MacDonald : This house is tainted by a lack of moral responsibility.

• Archie MacDonald : And what about you, Father. Isn't this your cue for a special speech?

  Hector MacDonald : What speech is that, lad?

  Lexie : The same speech we've heard every day this week.

  Archie MacDonald : The one that goes "when I was your age I'd liberated Europe from the Hun and sired half a polo team".