# Couples

- Author: [John Updike](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-updike.md)
- Quotes: 6
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-updike/couples

## Quotes

> The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-updike/couples/the-first-breath.md)

> By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-updike/couples/by-the-time.md)

> Sex is like money; only too much is enough.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-updike/couples/sex-is-like.md)

> It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks latenesses, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patchings to repair great rents in the quotidian.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-updike/couples/it-is-not.md)

> Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-updike/couples/every-marriage-tends.md)

> An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-updike/couples/an-affair-wants.md)