Dagmar Godowsky Quotes

#1. Lazy people always work harder than anyone else; they're so eager to get through and lie down again.

Dagmar Godowsky

#2. [On Nijinksy:] Ah, he took my breath away! The body that man had, the controlled power, the iron fragility. He was a note of music. He was dance!

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#3. Too late! The two saddest words in any tongue.

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#4. I always loved being with older people. Now they're so difficult to find.

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#5. [On Rachmaninoff:] He was the most Russian of them all, like a cathedral in the snow. Holy, wintry, infinite, he was all the Russias.

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#6. I've always burned my bridges before me.

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#7. In those days I was a slip of a thing with a divine figure and a face I was certain drove men wild. There is no doubt that I was the most conceited thing that ever lived. I simply adored Dagmar Godowsky and it was a passion that has withstood the test of time.

Dagmar Godowsky

#8. [When asked how many husbands she'd had:] Two of my own, my dear, and several of my friends'.

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