Doom Castle Quotes

“That's richt. When we were campaignin' wi' Marlborough oor lads had mony time to sleep wi' the canon dirlin' aboot them. Ye get us'd to't, as Annalpa says aboot bein' a weedow woman. And if ye hae noticed it, Coont, there's nae people mair adapted for fechtin' under difeeculties than oor ane; that's what maks the Scots the finest sogers in the warld. It's the build o them, Lowlan' or Hielan', the breed o' them; the dour hard character o' their country and their mainner o' leevin'. We gied the English a fleg at the 'Forty-five,' didnae we? That was where the tartan cam' in: man, there's naethin' like us!”
― Neil Munro, Doom Castle

“I cannot approve of your foible for dancing-shoes to wade through snow in such weather.”
― Neil Munro, Doom Castle

“There's meat as weel as music in it, as the fox said when he ate the bagpipes.”
― Neil Munro, Doom Castle