Quotation record · reviewed 2026-08-09
Circulates under William Congreve
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The familiar sentence compresses two lines from Congreve's The Mourning Bride. The shortened wording should be identified as an adaptation, not presented as the complete original.
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
Earliest traceable appearance in this record: 1697, The Mourning Bride, act 3, scene 8.
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