Angry Young Man

The phrase angry young man, or angry young men, can refer to:

  • British New Wave, also referred to as the Angry Young Man genre, a British film genre of the 1960s, featuring working class heroes and left-wing themes
  • Angry young men, a journalistic catchphrase applied to some British writers of the mid-1950s, such as John Osborne, author of Look Back in Anger
  • Fenqing, literal translation "angry young men", a Chinese slang term for young nationalists
  • "Prelude/Angry Young Man", a song by Billy Joel
  • "Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)", a song by the band Styx
  • "Angry Young Man", journalistic catchphrase for the Hindi film actor Amitabh Bachchan

Famous quotes containing the words young man, angry, young and/or man:

    “There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him “Was your mother never at Rome?” He answered “No Sir; but my father was.””
    —Francis Bacon (1561–1626)

    “Down, wanton, down! Have you no shame
    That at the whisper of Love’s name,
    Or Beauty’s, presto! up you raise
    Your angry head and stand at gaze?”
    —Robert Graves (1895–1985)

    “Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.”
    —Minna Antrim (1861–?)