‘Hell has no fury like a woman scorned’ conveys the idea that a scorned woman (that is, one who has been betrayed) is more furious than anything that hell can devise.
‘Hell has no fury like a woman scorned’ (or sometimes ‘hell hath no fury like a woman scorned’) is usually attributed to the English playwright and poet William Congreve. He wrote these lines in his play The Mourning Bride, 1697:
Heav’n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn’d,
Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn’d.
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