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‘Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned’ is one of two famous quotations from a largely forgotten Restoration play by William Congreve, The Mourning Bride (1697). The other line which is often quoted from Congreve’s play is ‘Music has charms to sooth a savage breast.’.
"Heav'n has no rage, like love to hatred turn'd, Nor hell a fury, like a woman scorned", spoken by Zara in Act III, Scene VIII, but paraphrased as "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned". [8] Congreve coined another famous phrase in Love for Love (1695):
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.: A biography of the author of this famous literary quote.
Mar 30, 2020 · The phrase hell hath no fury like a woman’s corns, and its variants, pun on hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, which originated in the following passage from The Mourning Bride (1697), by the English playwright William Congreve (1670-1729):
Dido and Aeneas: Hell hath no fury …. Mercury, the messenger of the Gods, has been sent to tell Aeneas in the starkest terms that he must leave Carthage and Dido and fulfil his mission for the foundation of Rome. Concerned about how Dido will react, he begins to prepare his fleet without telling her, but she finds out.
Sep 12, 2015 · Here's a virtual movie of a Poem "The Mourning Bride" taken from the play by the English Playright and poet William Congreve. This most poetic of plays is the source of great quotes often used...
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Sep 12, 2016 · Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned: the legend of the bell of Dōjō-ji. This famous English saying - often misattributed to William Shakespeare, but actually a partially paraphrased quotation from William Congreve - could apply to many tragic tales from all over the world through the centuries.
