Angry Young Men Quotes

#1. Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre.

Pete Townshend

#2. One is reminded how often avant-gardism is a more polite label for the concerns of angry young men, sometimes graying young men.

Mary McLeod

#3. Just because I rock doesn't mean I am made of stone.

Jim Carrey

#4. What greater honor,
when a person moves forward,
they leave behind in each of us,
the best of what they were.

Mac McGovern

#5. I never go to weddings. Waste of time. Person can get married a dozen times. Lots of folks do. Family like ours, know everybody in the state of Texas and around outside, why, you could spend your life going to weddings. But a funeral, that's different. You only die once.

Edna Ferber

#6. Oh, it's Applekit!" Cinderpelt yelped in mock astonishment. "I thought for a heartbeat there was a giant burr chasing me. Never mind. When we stop, I'll help you untangle them.

Erin Hunter

#7. Give a moment or two to the angry young man with his foot in his mouth and his heart in his hand.

Billy Joel

#8. Poetry cannot be defined, only experienced

Christopher Logue

#9. Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.

Wayne Dyer

#10. Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, it denotes that their hearts are black, and that they are often cruel and relentless, and our old men and old women are unable to restrain them. Thus it has ever been.

Chief Seattle

#11. I was never an Angry Young Man. I am angry only when I hit my thumb with a hammer.

Kingsley Amis

#12. The nice thing about putting on your glasses in the dark is that you know you could see better if it were light, but since it is dark the glasses make no difference at all.

Nicholson Baker

#13. A DEAD STATESMAN
I could not dig: I dared not rob:
Therefore I lied to please the mob.
Now all my lies are proved untrue
And I must face the men I slew.
What tale shall serve me here among
Mine angry and defrauded young?
from EPITAPHS OF THE WAR 1914-18

Rudyard Kipling

#14. To be as vehement as he is is to be almost non-committal.

John Osborne

#15. Never steal anything so small that you'll have to go to an unpleasant city jail for it instead of a minimum-security federal tennis prison.

P. J. O'Rourke

#16. When young and clever men are angry, they either explode or achieve great things.

Julian Fellowes

#17. God gives prosperity only to those who personally know him and are obedient to His will.

Sunday Adelaja