“BRODIE:
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned for SEGA.”
Kevin Smith (1970) American screenwriter, actor, film producer, public speaker and director
"Bureaucracy Scorned" in Newsweek (29 December 1975), later published in Bright Promises, Dismal Performance : An Economist's Protest (1983)
“BRODIE:
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned for SEGA.”
Kevin Smith (1970) American screenwriter, actor, film producer, public speaker and director
“Hell hath no fury like a coolly received postmodernist.”
David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist
Source: Girl With Curious Hair
Colley Cibber Love's Last Shift
Love's Last Shift, Act IV (1696). Compare: "Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd,
Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd", William Congreve, The Mourning Bride (1697), Act III, scene viii (often paraphrased: "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned").
“Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd,
Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.”
William Congreve The Mourning Bride
Act III, scene viii; often paraphrased: "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned". A similar line occurs in Love's Last Shift, by Colley Cibber, act iv.: "We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman".
The Mourning Bride (1697)
Variant: Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
Context: Vile and ingrate! too late thou shalt repent
The base Injustice thou hast done my Love:
Yes, thou shalt know, spite of thy past Distress,
And all those Ills which thou so long hast mourn'd;
Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd,
Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.
“This was hell and I was its fury.”
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Burns
Christopher Marlowe The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
Mephistopheles, Act II, scene i, line 118
Doctor Faustus (c. 1603)
Source: Dr. Faustus
“Think not that aught the fury can surpass
Of woman, when she feels that she is scorned.”
Francesco Berni (1497–1535) Italian poet
Non crediate che sia maggiore sdegno,
Che quel di donna quando e dispregiata.
IX, 23
Rifacimento of Orlando Innamorato
“Its fury aims to shatter but our altars:
It scorns only the gods and never the mortals.”
Sa fureur ne va qu'à briser nos autels,
Elle n'en veut qu'aux dieux, et non pas aux mortels.
Stratonice, act I, scene iii
Referring to the early Christian church.
Polyeucte (1642)
“Hell, it is well known, has no fury like a woman who wants her tea and can't get it.”
P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author
Source: Very Good, Jeeves!
“Age is deformed, youth unkind,
We scorn their bodies, they our mind.”
Chrestoleros (1598), Bk.7, Epigram 9