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"Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet."
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"Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day."

"I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar."

"If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating."

"A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship."

"A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech."

"There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees."

"I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it's a conversation piece."

"The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk."

"The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation."
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"Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet."
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