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:
“Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers—his hopes.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“Yet cease your ire, you angry stars of heaven!
Wind, rain, and thunder, remember earthly man
Is but a substance that must yield to you.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“A young Apollo, golden-haired,
Stands dreaming on the verge of strife,
Magnificently unprepared
For the long littleness of life.”
—Frances Cornford (1886–1960)
“There was books too.... One was “Pilgrim’s Progress,” about a man that left his family it didn’t say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)