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.
My mother always used to say: 'The older you get, the better you get, unless you're a banana.'
You can't study comedy; it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude.
As you get older as a comedian and keep doing it, what you actually start to cherish on stage is not the build-up to the jokes, but how comfortable you can be in the silence and the non-laughing parts, and how long you can take the audience without a laugh to then get a huge reaction.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and you're probably watching the wrong channel.
Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he explained, so he did not weep.
KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.
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