Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
Interpretation
Sudden joy or triumph leads to unexpected laughter and expressions of happiness.
In this quote, Thomas Hobbes suggests that laughter is often a spontaneous reaction arising from a moment of sudden joy or victory. This unexpected emotion can create the 'grimaces' associated with laughter, highlighting the connection between our feelings of triumph and the physical expressions we exhibit in response to them.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of humor in our lives, one might use this quote to illustrate how laughter can emerge from moments of success.
Baptism is the sacrament of allegiance of them that are to be received into the Kingdom of God, that is to say, into Eternal life, that is to say, to Remission of Sin. For as Eternal life was lost by the committing, so it is recovered by the remitting of men's sins.
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
For it is not the shape, but their use, that makes them angels.
For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
Scientia potentia est, sed parva; quia scientia egregia rara est, nec proinde apparens nisi paucissimis, et in paucis rebus. Scientiae enim ea natura est, ut esse intelligi non possit, nisi ab illis qui sunt scientia praediti.
The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.
I've been to many funerals of funny people, and they're some of the funniest days you'll ever have, because the emotions run high.
Humor and knowledge are the two great hopes of our culture.
"Fussy eater" is a euphemism for "big pain in the ass."
Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.
All my humor is based on destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing in the bread line - right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.
You know what's a great way of tricking people into thinking you're a genius? Write a show about geniuses!
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