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 angry, young and/or man:

    I was angry with my friend:
    I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
    I was angry with my foe:
    I told it not, my wrath did grow.
    William Blake (1757–1827)

    The trouble with the young people today is that it is they who are young.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection. Nature never became a toy to a wise spirit.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)