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.
Laughter has been implanted in our soul, that the soul may sometime be refreshed.
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
The word bipartisan usually means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out.
Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.
I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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