Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.

Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.

If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson

..he continues to cling to the forlorn hope that I will turn into one of those swooning females...and fling myself squeeling at him whenever anything happens. Like all men, he clings to his illusions.

A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.