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:

    “He, the young man carbuncular, arrives,...”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “... everyone young going down the long slide
    To happiness, endlessly.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “All histories do shew, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.”
    —Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618)