“Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.”

Several 17th century English dramatists included similar sentiments in their plays.

It was William Congreve who in his extremely popular tragedy of 1697, “The Mourning Bride”, wrote the lines that included a phrase that soon entered the language as a cliché.

“Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.”
Several 17th century English dramatists included similar sentiments in their plays.

It was William Congreve who in his extremely popular tragedy of 1697, “The Mourning Bride”, wrote the lines that included a phrase that soon entered the language as a cliché.

“Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.”