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

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

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

"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned."

From The Expressman and the Detective by Allan Pinkerton