The hooker with a heart of gold (also the whore with a heart of gold or the tart with a heart) is a stock character involving a prostitute with a hidden integrity and kindness.
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Famous quotes containing the words hooker, heart and/or gold:
“Let’s put it this way: I fought for the South. We lost.”
—Eric Red, U.S. screenwriter, and Kathryn Bigelow. Jesse Hooker (Lance Henricksen)
“I would go fifty miles on foot, for I have not a horse worth riding on, to kiss the hand of that man whose generous heart will give up the reins of his imagination into his author’s hands,—be pleased he knows not why, and cares not wherefore.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)