Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.

When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.

The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company

If one hears bad music it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation...