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:
“He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favourable hearers.”
—Richard Hooker (1554–1600)
“Handsome husbands often make a wife’s heart ache.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)
“1st Murderer. Where’s thy conscience now?...
2nd Murderer. I’ll not meddle with it. It makes a man a coward.... It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that by chance I found. It beggars any man that keeps it. It is turned out of towns and cities for a dangerous thing, and every man that means to live well endeavors to trust to himself and live without it.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)