Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned

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1. No one is angrier than a woman who has been rejected in love. This proverb is adapted from a line in the play The Mourning Bride, by William Congreve, an English author of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. (See also Music has charms to soothe a savage breast.)

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Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned

Lawrence M. Jacobson Olympia, Wash. Congressman Wayne Hays apparently never heard of the warning: "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned."

From Time Magazine Archive

Then came to mind that line: "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned."

From Coralie Everyday Life Library No. 2 by Charlotte M. Brame

It now sings a choral interlude opening on the text "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned," and continuing with a prayer for Jason's safety.

From Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman by Frank Justus Miller

He had heard the words of the poet: "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned," and he recalled these words only to shudder.

From A Castle in Spain A Novel by James De Mille

You know the quotation that "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned."

From Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. by William F. Howe