When we pray we admit defeat. Author: Anthony Burgess Copy Quote More from Anthony Burgess “I was cured all right.” “The common people will let it go, oh yes. They will sell liberty for a quieter …” “Badness is of the self, the one, the you or me on our oddy knockies, and that s…” “To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the …”