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:
“Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.”
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)
“This is one of the stout-hearted old warriors: he is angry with civilization because he supposes that its aim is to make all good things—honors, treasures, beautiful women—accessible even to cowards.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“the young men who watch us from the curbs:
They hold the glaze of wonder in their stare
Our crooked backs, hands fetid as old herbs,
The tallow eyes, wax face, the foreign hair!”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“It is hard to say which is the greatest fool: he who tells the whole truth, or he who tells no truth at all. Character is as necessary in business as in trade. No man can deceive often in either.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)