Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned

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

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

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“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.

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Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

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Because hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

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