Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned

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.)

Example Sentences

Then she put up another sign — “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” — and plopped down on the sidewalk.

From Los Angeles Times

“I cited the old adage, ‘hell hath no fury like a woman scorned,’” Federal Defender Alec Hall told the judge.

From Seattle Times

“Ouanga” Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned in a 2015 restoration of this B&W 1933 horror drama filmed in Haiti and Jamaica and starring former stage actress Fredi Washington as a Black female plantation owner/voodoo priestess.

From Los Angeles Times

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

From Fox News

Because hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

From Slate