Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned

Cultural  

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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Example Sentences

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

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 Howe, William F.

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 De Mille, James

"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned."

From The Expressman and the Detective by Pinkerton, Allan

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 Miller, Frank Justus