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

    - Sir Kingsley Amis
      Dissociating himself from that literary grouping, in The Eton College Chronicle,  Jun.

  • Has he reconnected with the angry middle?

    -Anonymous
      Listener's question on Clinton's rapport with the middle class after the State of the Union speech. In NPR broadcast, 26  Jan.

  • But I say unto you,That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say,Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    St Matthew 5:22.

  • Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    Ephesians 4:25^6.

  • 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
      Songs of Experience,'A Poison Tree'.

  • Golf always makes me so damned angry.

    -GeorgeV
    Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

  • Angry Young Man.

    - Leslie Paul
      Title of book. Later associated withJohn Osborne. Austrian^Swiss  theoretical  physicist  and  Nobel  prize  winner (1945).

  • The 50s face was angry, the 60s face was well-fed, the 70s face was foxy. Perhaps it was the right expression: there was a lot to be waryabout.

    - Keith Spencer Waterhouse
      In the Observer Magazine, 30 Dec.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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