To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is "misunderstood" or that he is "different;" none of this is necessarily complimentary, but it will flatter him infinitely more than merely telling him that he is brilliant, or noble, or wise, or good.
Helen RowlandEternity: The interval between the time when a woman discovers that a man is in love with her and the time when he finds it out himself and tells her about it.
Helen Rowland